Download or read book Measuring Development: the Role and Adequacy of Development Indicators written by Nancy Baster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1972. This issue is concerned with development (and development indicators) in a particular period of time and in a particular historical context—namely in the context of the changes that are taking place in the less-developed or low-income countries of the third world in the period since World War II.