Physical and Social Environment G. K. Payne, Urban Housing in the Third World. London: Leonard Hill, 1977. 242 pp. £8·00. R. M. Pritchard, Housing and the Spatial Structure of the City. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. 234 pp. Tables. Bibliography. £8·50.

Urban History ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 153-155
Author(s):  
A. J. Strachan
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Third World ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The City

Amiya Kumar Bagchi. The Political Economy of Underdevelopment. London: Cambridge University Press. 1982. Reprint 1983. pp.viii+276. List of books for further reading; Index. Price: £ 8.50 (paperback edition).

1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Zia Ul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Third World

Amiya Kumar Bagchi, an eminent economist of the modern Cambridge tradition, has produced a timely treatise, in a condensed form, on the development problems of the Third World countries. The author's general thesis is that economic development in the developing societies necessarily requires a radical transformation in the economic, social and political structures. As economic development is actually a social process, economic growth should not be narrowly defined as the growth of the stock of rich capitalists. Neither can their savings be equated to capital formation whose impact on income will presumably 'trickle down' to the working classes. Economic growth strategies must not aim at creating rich elites, because, according to the author, "maximizing the surplus in the hands of the rich in the Third World is not, however, necessarily a way of maximizing the rate of growth".

Urban Housing in the Third World.

1979 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
S. S. L. ◽  
Geoffrey Payne
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

The City in the Third World.

1975 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 505
Author(s):  
Paul Wheatley ◽  
D. J. Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The City
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