Tables, Figures, and Maps
Preface
About the Author
Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Underdevelopment and Diversity in the Global South
Defining the Developing World
Economic, Social, and Political Characteristics of LDCs
A Brief History of Economic Development
Goals and Organization: Who or What Causes Global Poverty?
Active Learning Exercises
Chapter 2 Human Development and Underdevelopment
Defining Human Development
Health Snapshot: Description and Causes of the Developing World’s Deficit
Health Trends: Tracking Improvements in LDCs
Education Snapshot: Description and Causes of the Developing World’s Deficit
Education Trends: Tracking Improvements in LDCs through Time
Active Learning Exercises
Chapter 3 The Costs and Benefits of Economic Development
Income Inequality and Development
The Environment and Development
Happiness and Development
Active Learning Exercises
Part II The West: International Contexts
Chapter 4 Slavery and Colonialism
Causes of Underdevelopment: The Long-Term Damage of Slavery
Critique: Questioning the Magnitude of Slavery’s Legacy
Causes of Underdevelopment: Western Colonialism’s Consequences
Critique of Colonial Legacy Arguments
Active Learning Exercises
Chapter 5 Globalization and Neocolonialism
From the First Global Century to Import Substitution
Causes of Underdevelopment: Dependency and Other Early Theories of Global Exploitation
Critiques of Structuralism, Dependency Theory, and WST
Causes of Underdevelopment: Newer Concerns about Globalization
Critique: Defending Globalization
Active Learning Exercises
Chapter 6 Foreign Aid and the Bretton Woods Institutions
Causes of Underdevelopment: Aid Skepticism
Critique: Defending Foreign Aid and Its Record
The Bretton Woods Institutions: The IMF and the World Bank
Causes of Underdevelopment: Imposing Market Fundamentalism
Critique: Defending the Bretton Woods Institutions
Active Learning Exercises
Part III The South: Domestic Factors
Chapter 7 States, Markets, and Development Models
Causes of Underdevelopment: Failures of the State-Led Model
Critique: Successes of State-Led Development
Causes of Underdevelopment: Failures of Socialism
Critique: Successes of Socialism
The Market-Oriented Strategy
Causes of Underdevelopment: Shortcomings of the Market-Oriented Strategy
Critique: Successes of the Washington Consensus
Active Learning Exercises
Chapter 8 Economic Institutions and Informality
Property Markets and Informal Ownership
Causes of Underdevelopment: The Drawbacks of Informal Ownership
Critique: Is Formality Worth It?
Informal Work and Informal Firms
Causes of Underdevelopment: The Drawbacks of Informal Work and Firms
Critique: Formalization as a False Solution
Causes of Underdevelopment: The Drawbacks of Informal Finance
Critique: Overselling Financial Inclusion
Active Learning Exercises
Chapter 9 Political Institutions and Governance
The Judiciary and the Bureaucracy
Causes of Underdevelopment: Bad Political Institutions
Active Learning Exercises
Chapter 10 Culture and Identity
Understanding Culture and Social Identity
Causes of Underdevelopment: The Culturalist School
Critique of Culturalist Claims
Causes of Underdevelopment: The Costs of Cultural Diversity
Critique: Defending Diversity
Active Learning Exercises
Chapter 11 Gender Inequality
Causes of Underdevelopment: Disempowered Women and Girls
Critiques of the Instrumentalist View
Female Health, Physical Security, and Fertility
Causes of Underdevelopment: High Fertility
Critique: Doubting the Costs of High Fertility
Active Learning Exercises
Chapter 12 Violence and State Failure
Political Violence and State Failure
Causes of Underdevelopment: War as Development in Reverse
Critique: Rethinking the Costs of Political Violence
Causes of Underdevelopment: The Toll of Community Violence
Critique: Putting the Costs of Community Violence in Perspective
Active Learning Exercises
Part IV The Natural World: Physical Geography
Chapter 13 Geography and Development
Geographical Commonalities of the Developing World
Causes of Underdevelopment: Physical Geography and Climate
Critique: Geographical Determinism?
Causes of Underdevelopment: Subsoil Assets
Critique: A Resource Blessing?
Active Learning Exercises
Chapter 14 Environmental Change and Development
Communal Environmental Problems
Causes of Underdevelopment: A Malthusian Trap?
Critique: Recent History versus Neo-Malthusianism
Causes of Underdevelopment: The Burden of Climate Change
Critique: An Exaggerated Threat to Development?
Active Learning Exercises
Appendix: Country Codes
Notes
Glossary
Index
