Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "human progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates of child mortality, illiteracy, environmental...

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 --...