The End of the Third World

by Nigel Harris

Harris assesses the development of the Asian "Gang of Four" (Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore) and the two largest Latin American countries (Taiwan, and Singapore) and the two largest Latin American countries (Mexico and Brazil), and describes a newly emerging global economy that is now superseding the old national state and politics based on it.

Genres: Economics, History

220 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1987

Reviews

[Nirmal · Rating 2 out of 5]

Written in 1986, the book tries to analysis on what makes the economic growth speed up by giving examples of some asian and south american countries.
The initial part of the book is scintifically written providing concrete data. But as the chapter progresses, the book becomes verbose and a collection of quotes that autor uses to support his opinon.

[Lynn Pan]

The Third World will always be hopelessly poor, underdeveloped and sunk in primitive superstition: such are the comfortable, and perhaps comforting, Western clichés which have been shattered for ever. Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia have all changed rapidly from peasant societies into advanced economies - a process which took decades even centuries, in the West - while Brazil and Mexico have made immense strides in the same direction. It is high time we stopped making facile generalizations about 'the Third World'; instead, as Nigel Harris shows in this important sequel to his very successful Of Bread and Guns, we must tease out the factors which have left some countries desperately backward while others are catching up with us fast.