📚 Developing Countries

Books with developing countries on their catalogue record, first published between 1953 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject developing countries in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 12,133 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Great Ascent	Robert L. Heilbroner	1963	25
	Economic development	Michael P. Todaro	1994	20
	Industrialization and under-developed countries	Alan B. Mountjoy	1963	15
	Why Nations Fail	Daron Acemoglu	2012	15
	Half the sky	Nicholas D. Kristof	2009	13
	Persistent poverty	George L. Beckford	1972	11
	Inside the Third World	Paul Harrison	1981	11
	Postcolonialism and Development	Cheryl McEwan	2008	10
	Poor Economics	Abhijit Banerjee	2011	10
	The economics of under-developed countries	Bauer, P. T.	1957	9
	Economic development in the Third World	Michael P. Todaro	1977	9
	Economic development	E. Wayne Nafziger	1985	9
	Problems of capital formation in underdeveloped countries	Ragnar Nurkse	1953	8
	Warum sie so arm sind	Rudolf H. Strahm	1981	8
	Unrestricted warfare	Qiao Liang	2002	8
	The Third World handbook	Guy Arnold	1988	7
	Managing Projects in Developing Countries	John W. Cusworth	1993	7
	Urban health in developing countries	Trudy Harpham	1995	7
	The other world	Joseph N. Weatherby	2011	7
	Innovations in 'Sport for Development and Peace' Research	Megan Chawansky	2018	6
	Housing Policy Innovation in the Global South	Paavo Monkkonen	2019	6
	Politics and Policies for Water Resources Management in India	M. Dinesh Kumar	2019	6
	The Jakarta Method	Vincent Bevins	2020	6
	Cultural action for freedom	Paulo Freire	1970	5
	Growth and development, with special reference to developing economies	A. P. Thirlwall	1972	5
	First World, Third World	William Ryrie	1995	5
	Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures	H. Selin	2007	5
	Comparative politics	Gabriel Almond	1966	4
	Energy in the Developing World	Vaclav Smil	1980	4
	Quasi-states	Robert H. Jackson	1990	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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