[PDF] Persistent Poverty Underdevelopment In Plantation Economies Of The Third World eBook

Author : George L. Beckford
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Page : 346 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789766400743

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This is a revised edition of a seminal work on the nature of underdevelopment. It includes a new foreword and appendixes on the significance of plantations to Third World economies and the contribution that George Beckford made to Caribbean economic thought.

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File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 1971
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Examination of the ways in which structural characteristics of the plantation system influence the economic development process in developing countries, particularly in Asian and Caribbean countries and in Brazil - covers demographic aspects, traditional agriculture, resource allocation, the labour supply of rural workers, the impact of technological change on plantation enterprises, etc. Bibliography pp. 287 to 296, diagrams, references and statistical tables.

Author : George L. Beckford
Publisher : Canoe Press, University of the West Indies
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789768125408

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This volume presents papers by George Beckford which cover topics ranging from agricultural economics to political economy, to the social economy of man space, to the cultural roots of Caribbean creativity and a vision of one independent, sovereign and self-reliant Caribbean nation.

Author : Clive Y. Thomas
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0853457441

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Argues that another form of development — by the poor and for the poor — is not only possible but necessary.

Author : Lloyd Best
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
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This important book provides a fascinating insight into the conceptual under-pinnings of the theory of plantation economy initiated by Lloyd Best and Kari Levitt in the 1960s as a basis for analysing the nature of the Caribbean economy. While acknowledging an intellectual debt to Latin American structuralists and also to the work of Dudley Seers and William Demas, the authors develop an original and innovative analytical framework as a counter to more "universalist" models which failed to take account of the Caribbean reality. Their work identifies the main features of the plantation economy as a hinterland characterized by subordination and dependency on the dominant metropole. Distinguishing between hinterlands of conquest, settlement and exploitation, Best and Levitt analyse the rules that determine this complex relationship with the metropole. Their economic theories are presented against a background of the historical factors that gave rise to the "structural continuity" of Caribbean economies and which now impede meaningful structural transformation. Book jacket.

Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1101643285

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"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The Economist The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists Hailed by Time as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills more than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones. Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy. Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world's poorest countries. Ten years after its initial publication, The End of Poverty remains an indispensible and influential work. In this 10th anniversary edition, Sachs presents an extensive new foreword assessing the progress of the past decade, the work that remains to be done, and how each of us can help. He also looks ahead across the next fifteen years to 2030, the United Nations' target date for ending extreme poverty, offering new insights and recommendations.