Why are some countries so much richer than others? Development Accounting is a first-pass
attempt at organizing the answer around two proximate determinants: factors of production …

Publisher Summary From both historical and contemporary cross-section perspectives, the
agricultural transformation seems to evolve through at least four phases that are roughly …

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

The pace and scale of China's economic transformation have no historical precedent. In
1978, China was one of the poorest countries in the world. The real per capita GDP in China …

The chronic problem of urban unemployment and underemployment in almost every
contemporary developing country has received a relatively minimal degree of theoretical …

The role of agricultural productivity in economic development is addressed in a two-sector
model of endogenous growth in which (a) preferences are non-homothetic and the income …

A landmark textbook on development economics The study of development in low-income
countries is attracting more attention around the world than ever before. Yet until now there …

Christopher A. Gregory's Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of
economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates …

The sources of productivity growth over time, and of productivity differences among countries
and regions have emerged as a central unifying theme of growth theory and development …

Since 1978, China has experienced a rapid and unprecedented process of urbanization,
created by the history's largest flow of rural–urban migration in the world. This article …