What is the real meaning of development? Do the Millennium Development Goals fit with these meanings?

What can be learned from the historical record of economic progress in the now developed world? Are the initial conditions similar or different for contemporary developing countries from what the developed countries faced on the eve of their industrialization or in their earlier phases?

What are economic institutions, and how do they shape problems of underdevelopment

and prospects for successful development?

How can the extremes between rich and poor be so very great?

What are the sources of national and international economic growth? Who

benefits from such growth and why?