Recent decades have seen almost unprecedented economic growth in income per capita around the world. Yet this extraordinary overall performance masks a wide variation in growth rates across different countries, with persistent underdevelopment in some parts of the world. This disparity...

PART ONE. DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH. -- Patterns of development -- Measuring economic growth and development -- Economic growth: concepts and patterns -- Theories of economic growth -- States and markets -- PART TWO. DISTRIBUTION AND HUMAN RESOURCES. -- Inequality and poverty -- Population --...