The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development: An Introduction

by Adam Szirmai

Why are poor countries poor and rich countries rich? How are wealth and poverty related to changes in nutrition, health, life expectancy, education, population growth and politics? This modern, non-technical introduction to development economics takes a quantitative and comparative approach to contemporary debates, examining historical, institutional, demographic, sociological, political, cultural and ecological factors. Chapters contain comparative statistics from twenty-nine developing countries and assume no prior knowledge of economics.

746 pages, Paperback

First published January 20, 2005

Reviews

[Marcus Kang]

Broad as it is, the book provokes a holistic thought about development covering not only economic perspective but also societal, cultural and historic perspectives. A good start would be reading this book which gives you a variety of choices in further research.