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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Fourth Edition

In this fourth edition of his textbook, E. Wayne Nafziger analyzes

the economic development of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and East-

Central Europe. The treatment is suitable for students who have taken

a basic college course in the principles of economics. This compre-

hensive and clearly written text explains the growth in real income

per person and income disparities within and among developing coun-

tries. The author explains the reasons for the fast growth of Paciﬁc

Rim countries, Brazil, Poland, and (recently) India, and the increasing

economic misery and degradation of large parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

The book also examines China and other postsocialist economies as

low- and middle-income countries, without, however, overshadowing

the primary emphasis on the third world. The text, written by a scholar

active in economic research in developing countries, is replete with real-

world examples. The exposition emphasizes the themes of poverty,

inequality, unemployment, the environment, and deﬁciencies of people

in less-developed countries, rather than esoteric models of aggregate

economic growth. The guide to the readings, through bibliography as

well as Web sites with links to development resources, makes this book

useful for students writing research papers.

E. Wayne Nafziger is University Distinguished Professor of Economics

at Kansas State University. He is the author and editor of sixteen books

and numerous journal articles on development economics, income dis-

tribution, development theory, the economics of conﬂict, the Japanese

economy, and entrepreneurship. His book, Inequality in Africa: Polit-

ical Elites, Proletariat, Peasants, and the Poor (Cambridge University

Press), was cited by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book for

1989–1990. Professor Nafziger is also the author of The Debt Crisis

in Africa (1993) and the editor (with Frances Stewart and Raimo

Vayrynen) of the two-volume War, Hunger, and Displacement: The

Origins of Humanitarian Emergencies (2000). He has held research

positions at the U.N. University’s World Institute for Development

Economics Research, the Carter Center, the East–West Center, and in

Nigeria, India, Japan, and Britain.

Economic Development

FOURTH EDITION

E. Wayne Nafziger

Kansas State University

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