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The Economics of Being Poor is mainly devoted to the economics of acquiring skills and knowlede, to investment in the quality of the population and to the increasing economic importance of human capital - the quality of the work-force embodied in the health, education and skills, including the entrepreneurial skills of the workers themselves.

Nobel Laureate Theodore W. Schultz has made highly important contributions to the fields of agriculture and natural resource economics, and to human capital theory. This volume is mainly devoted to investments in specialized forms of capital, consisting in large part of human capital that produces increasing rates. The tensions between politics and economics are critically examined.