Schools of the years after the Second World War that treat poor countries as structurally different from rich ones, including development economics and Latin American structuralism. A school belongs here when its cited article ties it to postwar development policy or to structural economics. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading Postwar Development and Structuralist Schools, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field.
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Development economics (Wikipedia)
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Development economics is a branch of economics that deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries.
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The "structuralist" thesis, succinctly, called attention to the distinct structural problems of Third World countries: underdeveloped countries, they argued, were not merely "primitive versions" of developed countries, rather they had distinctive features of their own.
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