CLASS STRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
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CLASS STRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH (ebook)

ANGUS MADDISON

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Editorial:
ROUTLEDGE
Materia
ECONOMIA Y FINANZAS
ISBN:
9781134561704
Páginas:
192
Formato:
Epublication content package
Idioma:
Inglés
DRM
Si

The purpose of this study is to analyse the relationship between social structure and economic performance in India and Pakistan. It seeks to establish whether the social system had a significant dysfunctional role in hindering growth in the past, and whether the situation has changed since independence. It analyses the extent to which governments in office really tried to change the social structure and the degree to which their rhetorical commitments were constrained by the inertia of tradition and by the vested interests which inherited economic and social power.

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