Each key term is defined in the text at the spot where it is first used. Expanded glossary, with definitions in margins where terms are first used.The way these insights have helped inspire strategies for ending these practices are explained.
Insights from multi pleequilibria models (explained in detail in Chapter 4) are used to help explain the staying power of violent ethnic conflict and the persistence of harmful cultural practices such as female genital mutilation. Applications of contemporary models to new topics.The text examines the index formulas, explains how they differ from earlier indexes, reports on findings, and reviews issues surrounding the active debate on these measures. The United Nations Development Program released its Multidimensional Poverty Index in August 2010 and its New Human Development Index in November 2010. Measurement is an ever-present issue in the field of economic development.
All the other case studies have been updated to reflect current conditions and status. (The updated Grameen case is moved to Chapter 15.) An in-depth comparative study of Haiti and the Dominican Republic is introduced at the end of Chapter 10, demonstrating the influence of environment on development and vice versa, but revealing how environmental degradation stems from deeper causes. An in-depth comparison of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire appears at the end of Chapter 5, examining themes of the origins of comparative development and of the analysis of poverty causes and remedies. Two new full-length end-of-chapter comparative case studies are introduced to address current topics and findings and to broaden geographic coverage.
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