Economic Growth and Development

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Economic Growth and Development ...

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Contents List of Illustrative Material x List of Abbreviations xii ...

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List of Illustrative Material Tables 1.1 Total GDP in 2012 (current US$) 24 1.2 GDP per capita and GDP adjusted for PPP 25 1.3 L ...

Boxes Introduction Acknowledgements xiv The central fact in our economic world: global inequality The five key concerns of this ...

List of Abbreviations ANC African National Congress BMI Body mass index CMH Commission on Macroeconomics and Health EFA Educatio ...

UN United Nations UNDP United Nations Development Programme UPE Universal primary education WHO World Health Organization WTO Wo ...

Acknowledgements A big thanks for those long years at SOAS teaching Comparative Economic Growth and to all my wonderful teaching ...

Introduction On my first visit to India as an economics undergraduate in the 1990s, I had £900 to last for three months – a budg ...

has fallen in many European countries: according to World Bank data from US$3,760 in 2008 to US$3,609 in 2011 in the UK, US$3,31 ...

financial crisis lasts. That is the central fact of our economic world and it will remain so for a very long time. Two questions ...

The big problem is that so many countries have consciously tried and failed to catch up, often making a successful beginning, ex ...

have been slower than in Western Europe, not that they have slowed to 5 per cent in India in the last couple of years or been ma ...