Economic Development

ISBN-13: 9780333722282 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 216 str.

Gareth Rees

Opis

Economic development continues to be an area of interest to students on a variety of courses. The second edition of this book provides a lively and interesting introduction to the subject covering all of the major issues, including Third World debt, income distribution and environmental problems. Its issue-based approach makes it ideal for A-level and first year undergraduate students.

Spis treści

The World and its Welfare.- Development: Economic and Human.- Population Growth: Threat or Opportunity?.- Can We Cure Poverty?.- Feeding the World.- Industrialisation The Key to Development?.- Trade and Development.- The Debt Crisis.- Government, Externalities and the Environment.

O autorze

GARETH REES is Head of Economics at the United World College of the Atlantic, South Wales

CHARLES SMITH is a senior lecturer in Economics at Swansea Business School, Swansea Institute of Higher Education