Bibliografía: p. 615-644.

Pt.1. Development and underdevelopment: 1The sutdy of economic development -- 2. The development gap and the measurement of poverty -- 3. The characteristics of underdevelopment and structural change -- 4. Theories of economic growth -- Pt.2. Factors in the development ptocess: 5. Land, labour and agriculture -- 6. Capital and technical progress -- Pt.3. Obstacles to development: 7. Dualism, centre-periphery models and the process of cumulative causation -- 8. Population and development -- Pt.4. The role of the state, the allocation of resources, sustainable development and the choice of techniques: 9. Resource allocation in developing countries -- 10. Project appraisal, social cost-benefit analysis and shadow wages -- 11. Development and the environment -- 12. The choice of techniques -- 13. Input-output analysis -- Pt.5. Financing economic development: 14. Financing development from domestic resources -- 15. Foreign assistance, debt and development -- Pt.6. International trade, the balance of payments and development: 16. Trade and development -- 17. The balance of payment, international monetary assistance and development.