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Persistent Poverty

Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third World

Bibliographic Data

ID2770709
AuthorsFranklin W Knight (Stony Brook University)
Year1973
Volume53
Issue3
Pages547
Publication date1973-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofPersistent poverty: Underdevelopment in plantation economies of the Third World, George L Beckford, 1983
VenueHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2513011
OpenAlexW2014708398, W2328348621
LanguageEN
Citations received1

This is a revised edition of a seminal work on the nature of underdevelopment. It includes a new foreword and appendixes on the significance of plantations to Third World economies and the contribution that George Beckford made to Caribbean economic thought

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