Growth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach

by José Antonio Ocampo, Codrina Rada, Lance Taylor, et al.

Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that affect an economy's strength and stability, the authors identify the problems that have long frustrated growth in many parts of the developing world while...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231150148
• ISBN13: 9780231150149
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"