The wealth of poor nations / by C. Suriyakumaran.

Originally published: London: Croom Helm, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: History and Experience -- 1. The Long Wait -- 2. The Means to Growth: Conditions and Invariables -- 3. The Record -- Part II: Issues and Options -- 4. Return to Growth: New National Decisions -- 5. A Case of Employment-Intensive National Development -- 6. Post-Keynesian Model of Employment and Equilibrium -- 7 Return to Growth: New International Decisions -- 8. The International Co-operation Institutions -- 9. Trade and Development Co-operation -- 10. Monetary and Investment Co-operation -- 11. Resources, Population and Outer Limits to Growth -- 12. Integrated Planning and Development: The Environment/Development Case -- 13. Wages in a Developing Economy -- 14. Development in Practice -- Three Cases -- 15. Cultures, Totems and Taboos -- 16. The Information Order -- Part III: Th Future Context -- 17. A Manifesto.

Initially published in 1984, this book considers the contemporary condition of the Third World economy, investigating the structural factors and historical forces, mostly operating in the capitalist world, which underlie the experience of the Third World in the post-war era. The book provides a powerful critique of many of the development strategies which have been employed during this period and suggests that the misconceptions inherent within them have done much to damage North-South relations in recent years, particularly the failure to relate analytically the so-called social factors to economic growth and productivity.