June 2010
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Lawrence on Collier and Mintz on Haiti
The field of economic development has more popular books in print than was the case ten or twenty years ago. In fact, the last decade where such a volume of print existed on poorer countries and their prospects was the 1970s. That previous era, however, generated a more critical perspective on the promises of “catching up” to the wealthy Northern states. Now, within the popular...