- Poor, Economic policy, Poverty, Poor, developing countries
"Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America.
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Cool, contemporary, spare and plot-driven.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- William Russell Easterly
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 342
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780262050654
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