World history/WHME103/Globalization/Inequality

Reading

Read the below article. As you do so, consider the following questions:

• What factors promote economic development, and what factors impede it?

• What different paths are there that promote economic development?

Irma Adelman and Cynthia Taft Morris, 'Development History and its Implications for Development Theory: An Editorial', University of California, Berkeley.

What can promote development in underdeveloped countries? Post your responses on WEnotes below. For example:

• Investment in infrastructure ...

• Foreign ...

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