This book is designed as a core textbook for graduate students and advanced undergraduates of development economics. Richard Pomfret uses the theme of the diverse experiences of developing countries to illustrate the full range of topics conventionally studied in development economics courses - industrialization, agriculture, labour, trade policy, and others. Too often "the Third World" or "developing countries" are grouped together as a single entity. In fact, the countries conventionally considered to form this group contain counties with widely divergent circumstances and prospects. The "newly industrialized countries" of South-East Asia have as much in common, if not more, with Western Europe as they do with the poverty stricken countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The problems faced by Latin American countries are very different from those of the Middle East or the Indian sub-Continent. Pomfret's extensive use of case studies from a wide variety of countries demonstrates these different paths of economic development and brings the subject alive for students.
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Richard Pomfret is Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and Adjunct Professor in International Economics, The Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center, Italy.
He has been a Visiting Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai; Simon Fraser University, Canada; Thammasat University, Bangkok; Vanderbilt University, Nashville; the University of Florence; SciencesPo, Paris; Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, Germany; Université Paris XII; University of Trento, Italy; The Johns Hopkins University Washington DC and Nanjing, China. In 1992-4 he was seconded to the United Nations, advising governments in new independent states of Central Asia, and he has been consultant to multilateral institutions including the Arab Monetary Fund, Asian Development Bank, European Union, OECD, the World Bank and the World Health Organization.
