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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464500303321

Autore

Mehmet Ozay

Titolo

Economic planning and social justice in developing countries / / Ozay Mehmet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

©1978

ISBN

0-203-83625-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (481 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions: Development ; ; Volume 75

Disciplina

338.9/009172/4

Soggetti

Economic development - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Developing countries Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part One: Economic Growth Without SocialJustice; 1. What Was Wrong with Post-War Planning in LDCs?; 2. Distribution Effects of Growth: The Evidence; 3. Absolute Poverty: Measurement and Identification; 4. The Unemployment Problem of the LDCs; Part Two: Some Case-Studies of the Influence of Elites on Economic Planning and Polic; 5. Malaysia: From Colonial to Bumiputra Elitism; 6. Liberia: The Americo-Liberian Elite

7. Absolute Poverty: Measurement and IdentificationPart Three: Egalitarian Planning and Reform in LD; 8. Towards More Egalitarian Development Planning; 9. An Egalitarian Employment Policy Based on Manpower Planning; 10. Educational Planning: Shifting from Elitist to Egalitarian Principles; 11. Egalitarian Planning and Rural Development; 12. Global Equity: Reforming the International Trade and Aid System; 13. Summing Up: Egalitarian Planning as a Non-Violent Revolution; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1978, this book was written at a time when belief was high in Western-guided economic development of the emerging countries. The success of Marshall Plan in war-torn Europe generated a



US-led optimism that, with generous inflows of aid and technical assistance, the Third World could be won over in the Cold War. The author's direct experience as a young academic economist in Cyprus, Malaysia, Uganda and Liberia led him to question this general optimism: the reality on the ground in the developing world did not seem to match Western optimism. Theories and blueprints, made i