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<p><p>this Is A Book Dealing With The Big Questions About Development&#58;<p>&#183; What Is Development?<p>&#183; Can Third World Countries Ever Hope To 'catch Up'?<p>&#183; Can A Development Path Be Found That Avoids Indefinite Impoverishment On The One Hand, And Environmental Destruction On The Other?<p>&#183; What Is The Relationship, If Any, Between Economic Growth And Political Development?<p>&#183; Can A Country That Has Failed Hitherto Create For Itself A Second Chance?<p>in Their Wide-ranging And Insightful Exploration, The Authors Take As Their Main Examples Two Contrasting Countries&#58; Ghana, The First African Colony To Win Independence, But Which Plunged Into A Downward Spiral Of Economic Decay; And Thailand, Which Was Poorer Than West Africa In The 1950s, But Which Went On To Achieve Decades Of Extraordinarily Rapid Economic Growth, Albeit At Considerable Environmental And Human Cost.<p>intensely Readable, This Thought-provoking And Courageous Book Brings The Big Questions About Development To A Wide Audience Of College Students And Interested Readers.<p></p> <h3>adebayo Adedeji</h3> <p>readers Will Not Always Agree, But They Will Be Made To Think, By The Insightful A

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Author

Thompson, Nicholas, 1975-

Publisher

White Lotus ; Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781856498104

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Political Science, History

Rating

3.5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14