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First published in 1972. This issue is concerned with development (and development indicators) in a particular period of time and in a particular historical context-namely in the context of the changes that are taking place in the less-developed or low-income countries of the third world in the period since World War II.
List of contents
Development indicators - an introduction, Nancy Baster; what are we trying to measure?, Dudley Seers; income distribution and social stratification - some notes on theory and practice, Charles Elliott; the adequacy of income - a social dimension in economic development, Riad B. Tabbarah; social indicators and welfare measurement - remarks on methodology, Jan Drewnowski; development indicators and development models, Donald McGranahan; indicators of political development, Charles Lewis Taylor; the measurement of institutional characteristics of nations -methodological considerations, Irma Adelman and Cynthia Taft Morris; on the relationship between human resources and development - theory, methods, data, Johan Galtung; industrialization and national development in the British Isles, Michael Hechter.
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Nancy Baster
Summary
First published in 1972. This issue is concerned with development (and development indicators) in a particular period of time and in a particular historical context—namely in the context of the changes that are taking place in the less-developed or low-income countries of the third world in the period since World War II.
