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Title In search of prosperity : analytic narratives on economic growth / edited by Dani Rodrik
Published Princeton, NJ ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2003]
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Description vi, 481 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Australian growth: a California perspective / Ian W. McLean and Alan M. Taylor -- One polity, many countries: economic growth in India, 1873-2000 / Gregory Clark and Susan Wolcott -- An African success story: Botswana / Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson -- A toy collection, a socialist star, and a democratic dud? growth theory, Vietnam, and the Philippines / Lant Pritchett -- Growing into trouble: Indonesia after 1966 / Jonathan Temple -- India since independence: an analytic growth narrative / J. Bradford DeLong -- Who can explain the Mauritian miracle? Meade, Romer, Sachs, or Rodrik? / Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Roy -- Venezuela's growth implosion: a neoclassical story? / Ricardo Hausmann -- History, policy, and performance in two transition economies: Poland and Romania / Georges de Menil -- How reform worked in China / Yingyi Qian -- Sustained macroeconomic reforms, tepid growth: a governance puzzle in Bolivia / Daniel Kaufmann, Massimo Mastruzzi, and Diego Zavaleta -- Fiscal federalism, good governance, and economic growth in Mexico / Maite Careaga and Barry R. Weingast -- The political economy of growth without development: a case study of Pakistan / William Easterly
Summary The economics of growth has come a long way since it regained center stage for economists in the mid-1980s. Here for the first time is a series of country studies guided by that research. The thirteen essays, by leading economists, shed light on some of the most important growth puzzles of our time. How did China grow so rapidly despite the absence of full-fledged private property rights? What happened in India after the early 1980s to more than double its growth rate? How did Botswana and Mauritius avoid the problems that other countries in sub--Saharan Africa succumbed to? How did Indonesia manage to grow over three decades despite weak institutions and distorted microeconomic policies and why did it suffer such a collapse after 1997? What emerges from this collective effort is a deeper understanding of the centrality of institutions. Economies that have performed well over the long term owe their success not to geography or trade, but to institutions that have generated market-oriented incentives, protected property rights, and enabled stability. However, these narratives warn against a cookie-cutter approach to institution building
The contributors are Daron Acemoglu, Maite Careaga, Gregory Clark, J. Bradford DeLong, Georges de Menil, William Easterly, Ricardo Hausmann, Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufmann, Massimo Mastruzzi, Ian W. McLean, Lant Pritchett, Yingyi Qian, James A. Robinson, Devesh Roy, Arvind Subramanian, Alan M. Taylor, Jonathan Temple, Barry R. Weingast, SusanWolcott, and Diego Zavaleta
Notes Revisions of papers presented at a conference held at Harvard University, 2001
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Economic development -- Congresses.
SUBJECT Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114840
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Rodrik, Dani.
LC no. 2002072854
ISBN 0691092699 paperback
0691092680 cloth alkaline paper
Other Titles Analytic narratives on economic growth