Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in World Development

by Michael Lipton

Argues that the greatest division in the world today is the economic gap between urban and rural areas in the developing countries and sets forth approaches to improving the conditions of the world's most impoverished peoples

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Michael Lipton was a British development studies economist specialising in the study of rural poverty in developing countries.

Reviews

[Marc · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book introduced the central theory of my master thesis.Even though the book was written during the age of industrial import-substituation it is still relevant for today's time. Urban bias, the central theme of the book, is still present in many developing countries and acriculture is paying the price. The food shortage can to some extent followed back to some politics described in this book.