World Development Experience

Realising that development is a multidimensional process involving reorganization and reorientation of entire economic and social system, the book undertakes a systematic analysis and empirical testing of this field of world wide importance, for about 100 developing and developed countries. The book examines the relationship of economic development with structural and demographic changes, the inter-relationship between the different structural and demographic indicators, traces the relationship between rate of growth and level of development, studies whether development gap is bridging or not, the attempts to construct alternative measures of economic development in the light of development experience of different countries. The book is useful to teachers, students, researchers, planners and policy makers.