Patterns of development: resources, policy and economic growth

Abstract

Part 1 Overview - world within the Third World: diverging development - types of developing country. Part 2 Urban bias and environmental deterioration - low-income Africa: rural neglect and environmental degradation in Africa population, technology and land - a soft-tech greening of Africa. Part 3 Income inequality - low-income Asia: income inequality - distance and development in low-income Asia the costs of Autakic industrialization in China and India. Part 4 Primacy and hyperurbanization - mid-income Latin America: the city size controversy - Latin American experience restructuring the city and settlement hierarchy. Part 5 Hard lessons from the new international economic order - mineral economies: critiques of international trade the mineral eceonomies - from trade confrontation to sustainable development. Part 6 The role of the state - mid-income East Asia: East Asia's developmental escalator - Malaysia and Indonesia a prudent role for the state - the industrial policy controversy in resource-poor Korea and Taiwan. Part 7 Prospects: incorporating environment sustainability, income redistribution and democratization into economic development.

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