Sunday, September 21, 2008

CHARACTERISTICS OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT

Harvey leibenstein has classified the characteristics of underdevelopment under four major heads,namely

1.Economic
2.Demographic
3.Cultural and political
4.Technological and Miscellaneous

The other features of underdevelopment are:

1.Preponderence of Agriculture
2.Population pressure and Unemployment
3.Poor income and Poor savings
4.Under-utilisation of resources
5.Capital deficiency
6.Low level of technology
7.Foreign trade orientation
8.Poor Economic Organization
9.Lack of suitable Socio-Economic Setup.
10.A Dualistic Economy.

2 comments:

Dharyl Indino said...

don't you have further explanation of each characteristics?

Wiki said...

Yes.Hope to do it in near future...