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All countries, it is to be hoped, are developing. Yet if one speaks of ‘the developing countries’, either to economists or in common parlance, one is hardly in serious danger of being misunderstood. One’s heareis will have a pretty good idea as to what sort of country one is talking about.
History, with its record of the movement of leadership from region to region, lends little support to the theory that certain peoples are naturally qualified for success in the economic arts, and others unfitted for it. …
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Dasgupta, A.K. (1974). The Relevance of Economics. In: Economic Theory and the Developing Countries. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86195-8_1
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