Work, Income and Inequality: Payments Systems in the Third World

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Inequality, Technology and Payments Systems....Pages 1-31
Rent-capitalism and Unequal Development in the Middle East: the Case of Iran....Pages 32-61
The State and Income Redistribution in Peru, 1968–76, with Special Reference to Manufacturing....Pages 62-82
Alternative Patterns of Distribution and Growth in the Mixed Economy: the Philippines and Taiwan....Pages 83-107
The Influence of the Urban Informal Sector on Economic Inequality....Pages 108-137
Distributive Regimes under Public Enterprise: a Case Study of the Bangladesh Experience....Pages 138-167
Casual Labour in Peruvian Agrarian Co-operatives....Pages 168-188
The Moshav in Israel: Possibilities for its Application in Developing Countries....Pages 189-214
The Kibbutz as a Model for Developing Countries: on maintaining full economic equality in practice....Pages 215-242
Economic Distribution and Rural Development in China: the Legacy of the Maoist Era....Pages 243-278
Collective Agriculture in Soviet Central Asia....Pages 279-305
Payments Systems and Third World Development: some Conclusions....Pages 306-323
Back Matter....Pages 324-333