Development in the Third World: From Policy Failure to Policy Reform

220 Pages·1996·21.907 MB·English

by  Kempe Ronald Hope Sr.

DEVELOPMENT
THIRD
WORLD
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DEVELOPMENT
rHIRDWORLD
FROM POLICY FA lLURE
TO POLICY REFORM
Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr.
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LONDON AND NEW YORK
First published 1996 by M.E. Sharpe
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hope, Kempe R.
Development in the third world: from policy failure to policy reform I
Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr. ; foreword by Rawle Farley.
p. em.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56324-732-l (he: alk. paper).-ISBN l-56324-733-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
I. Developing countries--Economic policy.
2. Developing countries--Economic conditions.
3. Economic development.
I. Title.
HC59.7.H655 1996
338.9'009172'4-dc20
95-38405
CIP
ISBN 13: 9781563247330 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9781563247323 (hbk)
To the memory of my brother Gordon
and to our inspirational children
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----Contents----
List of Tables lX
Foreword by Rawle Farley xi
Preface XV
1. Development Theory and Third World Development 3
Policy
• Postwar Conceptualizations of Development 4
• Development Planning 12
• Public Enterprises 14
• Development Management 16
• A Critical Assessment 17
• Concluding Remarks 23
2. Tax Policy and Savings Mobilization 28
• Tax Policy and Development 28
• Savings Mobilization 40
• Concluding Remarks 48
3. Foreign Aid and Foreign Debt 53
• Foreign Aid and the Development Process 53
• The Foreign Debt Problem 61
• Concluding Remarks 74
4. Urbanization and the Urban Bias 80
• Current Trends in Third World Urbanization 80
• Components of Urbanization 83
• Consequences ofUrbanization 91
• Some Policies to Manage Rapid Urbanization 95
• Concluding Remarks 106
5. The Growth and Impact of the Subterranean Sector 111
• The Nature of the Subterranean Sector in the
Third World 111
• Primary Benefits of the Subterranean Sector 115
• Some Disadvantages of the Subterranean Sector 118
• Policy Conclusions 121
• Concluding Remarks 125
6. Bureaucratic Corruption and the Administrative
Reform Imperative 129
• What Is Bureaucratic Corruption? 130
• Factors Contributing to Bureaucratic Corruption
in the Third World 131
• The Dysfunctional Effects of Bureaucratic Corruption
in the Third World 135
• The Administrative Reform Imperative 138
• Concluding Remarks 148
7. Can the Third World Develop? An Optimistic 152
Viewpoint
• Toward a Modified Policy Framework for
Third World Development 154
• Concluding Remarks 169
8. Policy Reform and Governance: Concluding Comments 176
Select Bibliography 183
Index 193
About the Author 199
----List of Tables----
3.1 Net Receipts of Aid from Major Sources by Region,
1981-91 60
3.2 Low-and Middle-Income Economies: Long-Term Debt
and Debt Service, 1985-92 67
4.1 Total Urban Population and Proportion of Population
Living in Urban Areas by Major Areas and Region,
1960--2000 81
4.2 Average Annual Growth Rates of Total, Urban, and
Rural Population by Region, 1960--2000 82
4.3 Total Fertility Rate in Selected Third World Nations,
1975-92 86
4.4 Average Annual Rate ofRural-Urban Transfers and
Rural-Urban Transfers as a Percentage of Urban Growth
for Major Regions and Subregions, 1950--60, 1950--75,
and 1980--90 89
4.5 Percentage Share of Net Migration in Urban Growth in
Selected Nations, 1975-90 90
4.6 Rural-Urban Disparities: Percentage of Population with
Access to Social Services in Selected Countries 95
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