| Description |
174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 65 |
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International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 65
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| Contents |
Introduction / Joseph E. Behar and Alfred G. Cuzan -- Technology, Producer Services, and the New International Division of Labor / William J. Haller and Vijai P. Singh -- The Effects of State Strength on Economic Growth in the Third World: A Critical Perspective on World-System Theory / Chien Ju Huang and Harvey Marshall -- Economies of Exclusion: Economic Change and the Global Underclass / Scott Sernau -- The World-City System by the Year 2000 / Andrew Bosworth -- Impacts of Domestic Population Dynamics and Foreign Wood Trade on Deforestation: A World-System Perspective / Edward L. Kick, Thomas J. Burns, Byron Davis, David A. Murray and Dixie A. Murray -- Elder Abuse in Developed and Developing Societies: The US and Costa Rica / Nancy Gilliland and Sandra Jimenez R. -- Privatization and Decentralization in the United States and Chile / William B. Tankersley and Alfred G. Cuzan |
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The Third World after the Cold War: Global Imperatives and Local Peculiarities / Shahid M. Shahidullah -- Economic Development and Regional Integration in Economic Intergovernmental Organizations / James E. Hawdon -- Development and Constitutional Democracy: A Set of Principles for "Perfecting the Market" / David Lempert |
| Summary |
The 10 articles assembled in this volume examine old problems and new opportunities in development that are associated with trade, communication, population distribution and migration, culture and institutions. They explore possibilities for and obstacles to technological and institutional transfers between developed and developing societies at a time when capitalism and democracy appear triumphant. Points of convergence, parallel processes and equivalences in social problems and potential solutions across levels of development are noted. They point out that the hierarchy of the world economic system and indigenous cultures militate against the homogenization of the globe along Western lines |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| SUBJECT |
Developing countries -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037344
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Developing countries -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117507
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| Author |
Behar, Joseph E.
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Cuzán, Alfred G.
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| LC no. |
97116877 |
| ISBN |
9004107320 |
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