ABSTRACT
For more than a decade now, growing worldwide attention has been focused on the development of poor nations. The United Nations has sponsored Development Decades; rich countries pay lip service to development, if not much largesse; and millions of poor people in several countries have set development as their most sought-after goal. 1 Indeed, this is the first time in history that it has been possible to conceive of development for virtually every country in the world economy. 2
