Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World

by Gary S. Fields

Book Overview

Most of the world's people live in "developing" economies, as do most of the world's poor. The predominant means of economic development is economic growth. In this book Gary Fields asks to what extent and in what circumstances economic growth improves the material standard of living of a country's people. Most development economists agree that economic growth raises the incomes of people in all parts of the income distribution and lowers the poverty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262561530
• ISBN13: 9780262561532
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher