Download or read book Comparative Development Perspectives written by Gustav Ranis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides comparative perspectives on problems of economic development in the 1980s. It emphasizes improvements in economic institutions and policies associated with the development process and employs the comparative historical approach to evaluate dimensions of the development process.