Economic DevelopmentM.E. Sharpe |
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... population growth, urbanization, and agricultural reform on their own merits. Commonly Used Measures of Development As mentioned above, economic development was traditionally equated with economic growth, which is typically measured by ...
... population growth, urbanization, and agricultural reform on their own merits. Commonly Used Measures of Development As mentioned above, economic development was traditionally equated with economic growth, which is typically measured by ...
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... population by combining " years of life lost " and " years lived with disability . " The QALY is a single health - state measure combining quantity and quality of life . It is a generic measure that adds up years spent in different ...
... population by combining " years of life lost " and " years lived with disability . " The QALY is a single health - state measure combining quantity and quality of life . It is a generic measure that adds up years spent in different ...
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... population growth is restrained in two ways . The first he called positive checks on population growth : war , famine , disease , and malnutrition . Thus the increasing misery of mankind could result from having population grow more ...
... population growth is restrained in two ways . The first he called positive checks on population growth : war , famine , disease , and malnutrition . Thus the increasing misery of mankind could result from having population grow more ...
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... population growth would lead to significant human misery. Table 1.2 Law of Diminishing Returns The ideas of Smith and Malthus are further developed in the work of David Ricardo (1772–1823), who is usually credited with developing the ...
... population growth would lead to significant human misery. Table 1.2 Law of Diminishing Returns The ideas of Smith and Malthus are further developed in the work of David Ricardo (1772–1823), who is usually credited with developing the ...
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... population growth . If the amount of fertile land is fixed , the growing population will run into the law of diminishing returns . If food is the main output of the agricultural sector , then the law of diminishing returns implies that ...
... population growth . If the amount of fertile land is fixed , the growing population will run into the law of diminishing returns . If food is the main output of the agricultural sector , then the law of diminishing returns implies that ...
Contents
Protoindustrialization and Trade | |
The Evolution and Role of Political Institutions | |
What We Have Learned | |
PatronClient Political Structure | |
Risk Management and Lineage Groups | |
Lineage Groups Fertility and the Demographic Transition | |
Recent Developments | |
PreIndependence India | |
Unique Characteristics and Challenges | |
What We Have Learned | |
Culture and Nationalism | |
What We Have Learned | |
East Asian Experience | |
A Neoclassical View | |
Japanese Success | |
What We Have Learned | |
Some Analysis of Transition | |
Vietnamese Transition | |
Independence and Trade | |
Population Growth | |
The Middle East and North Africa | |
Nonpetroleum Exporters in the Middle East and North Africa | |
What Have We Learned? | |
Tying It All Together | |
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accumulation agricultural growth agricultural productivity agricultural sector areas argued Botswana capital accumulation China Chinese colonial commitment problem comparative advantage competition costs created decline demographic dividend dependency theorists dependent developing countries diminishing returns discussed domestic dramatically East Asia economic development economic growth efflorescence England environment environmental Europe expansion experience exports extract factors farmers firms GDP per capita growth rate impact important incentive income increased India Industrial Revolution infrastructure inputs institutional structure investment involved Japan Japanese Kuznets Curve labor land Latin America law of diminishing lineage groups manufacturing modern sector occur organization output patron-client percent period periphery policies political poverty predatory profit property rights protoindustrial reduced reform region relatively result revenue role ruling elite rural Russia significant Smithian growth social society South Asia South Korea Soviet Soviet Union sub-Saharan Africa Taiwan theory trade transition urban wealth workers