ABSTRACT
The distinction between developing and developed countries, or between low—income countries and high—income ones, is bound to be arbitrary in a number of ways and for several reasons. Even in wealthy countries there are underdeveloped areas; the decaying centres of great cities are low—income neighbourhoods surrounded by suburbia. Moreover the concept of development itself contains many presuppositions about what constitutes human progress: it certainly relies too much upon superficial economic dogmas to be accepted uncritically.
