Nelson / Schultz / Slighton Structural Change in a Developing Economy

Colombia's Problems and Prospects
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7052-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1393, 338 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

This book deals with specific problems in Colombia as a means of exploring interrelated theoretical themes in the development process. Demographic and political as well as specifically economic variables arc given consideration in the authors' analysis of the constraints on the growth of Colombia's modern sector.

Originally published in 1971.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Nelson, Richard R.

Schultz, T. Paul

Slighton, Robert L.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Preface, pg. v
Contents, pg. vii
List of Tables, pg. ix
List of Figures, pg. xii
CHAPTER I. Introduction, pg. 1
CHAPTER II. Population Growth: Investigation of a Hypothesis, pg. 8
CHAPTER III. Internal Migration: A Quantitative Study of Rural-Urban Migration in Colombia, pg. 45
CHAPTER IV. Manufacturing Development: Factor Endowments and Dualism, pg. 77
CHAPTER V. Urban Income Distribution in a Dual Economy, pg. 128
CHAPTER VI. Constraints on the Growth of the Modern Sector, pg. 157
CHAPTER VII. The Political Determinants of Colombian Foreign Exchange Policy, pg. 215
CHAPTER VIII. Future Development Policy, pg. 262
INDEX, pg. 313