Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third World - Softcover

Beckford, George L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9766400741 ISBN 13: 9789766400743

Publisher: University Press of the West Indies, 1999

Synopsis

This is a revised edition of a seminal work on the nature of underdevelopment. It includes a new foreword and appendixes on the significance of plantations to Third World economies and the contribution that George Beckford made to Caribbean economic thought.

About this title

About the Author:

Professor George Beckford has had a lasting impact on Caribbean scholarship and development. He taught at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, for over 25 years and was visiting professor at various universities abroad. His contribution to Caribbean scholarship and development is evidenced by his works, which include 8 books, 41 journal articles and numerous reports, some of which are unpublished. In recognition of his work and influence in the region and the Third World, the George Beckford Foundation was launched on 24 June 1992 by the Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Honourable Percival James Patterson, Q.C.

Review:

"An extremely important contribution to our understanding of underdevelopment... It is in the subtlety of detail as much as the finely developed major thrust of the book that Beckford succeeds in creating that most difficult scholarly work: a multidisciplinary study of an entire genus of society which is coherent and convincing on both general and specific levels." - Journal of Modern African Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of the West Indies
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 9766400741
• ISBN 13: 9789766400743
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 339