The quest for prosperity how developing economies can take off.

How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. InThe Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin-the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank-focuses on what developing nation...

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Main Author Lin, Justin Yifu
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press 2012
Princeton Univ. Press
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ISBN1400844584
9781400844586
0691155895
9780691155890
9780691163567
0691163561

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Table of Contents:
  • The quest for prosperity : how developing economies can take off -- Contents -- Prologue -- One: New Challenges and New Solutions -- Two: A Battle of Narratives and Changing Paradigms -- Three: Economic Development: Lessons from Failures -- Four: Lessons from Successful Catch-Up Countries -- Five: A Framework for Rethinking Development: A New Structural Economics -- Six: What Would Be Done Differently Under the New Structural Economics? -- Seven: Putting the New Structural Economics Into Practice: Two Tracks and Six Steps -- Eight: The Peculiar Identities and Trajectories of Transition Economies -- Nine: Fostering Structural Change at Higher Levels of Development -- Ten: A Recipe for Economic Prosperity -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index
  • Front Matter Table of Contents PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION PROLOGUE ONE: New Challenges and New Solutions TWO: A Battle of Narratives and Changing Paradigms THREE: Economic Development: FOUR: Lessons from Successful Catch-up Countries FIVE: A Framework for Rethinking Development: SIX: What Would Be Done Differently under the New Structural Economics? SEVEN: Putting the New Structural Economics into Practice: EIGHT: The Peculiar Identities and Trajectories of Transition Economies NINE: Fostering Structural Change at Higher Levels of Development TEN: A Recipe for Economic Prosperity GLOSSARY NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
  • References Index Glossary Notes 10 A Recipe for Economic Prosperity 9 Fostering Structural Change at Higher Levels of Development 8 The Peculiar Identities and Trajectories of Transition Economies 7 Putting the New Structural Economics into Practice: Two Tracks and Six Steps 6 What Would Be Done Differently under the New Structural Economics? 5 A Framework for Rethinking Development: A New Structural Economics 4 Lessons from Successful Catch-up Countries 3 Economic Development: Lessons from Failures 2 A Battle of Narratives and Changing Paradigms 1 New Challenges and New Solutions Prologue CONTENTS Preface to the Paperback Edition Title Page, Copyright Page Cover