The Economic North–South Divide: Six Decades of Unequal Development

by Hans Wolfgang Singer, Kunibert Raffer, H. W. Singer

Since the 1940s, development thinking has been the subject of fierce debate and continual evolution. The authors of this book trace the ideas that have driven changing approaches to development, focusing also on the Prebisch-Singer Thesis, which seeks to explain the widening gaps between rich and poor nations, caused by unequal distribution of trade benefits. They discuss both aid during and after the cold war, and the rise and subsequent liberalisation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843760886
• ISBN13: 9781843760887
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"