Development Economics

Abstract

As we are often reminded nowadays, economic development – in the sense of regular progress and rising prosperity – was a preoccupation of the classical economists. What has come to be called Development Economics, however, is of much more recent origin. Both during and immediately after World War II, the conditions of poverty, illiteracy, disease and mortality in backward agrarian countries aroused keen interest and concern in the West, inspired by humanitarian considerations and, no doubt, those ensuing from the Cold War. The search for ways whereby their people could escape such misery and enjoy rising prosperity engendered a body of diverse doctrines and strong controversy, which has by no means fully subsided. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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