Economic Growth

Written by a former World Bank economist, How Does My Country Grow? distils growth policy lessons from the author's first-hand experience in Poland...

Why are some countries richer than others? Why do some economies grow so much faster than others do? Do economies tend to converge to similar level...

Celtic Revival? explores what happens when a society loses its wealth, its faith in government, and its trust in its Church. The glorious rise of t...

Why are some countries richer than others? Why do some economies grow so much faster than others do? Do economies tend to converge to similar level...

Innovation is increasingly recognized as a vitally important social and economic phenomenon worthy of serious research study. Firms are concerned a...

Over the last two centuries, the experiences of the first wave of industrialized countries in Europe and the US, and the more recent experiences of...

Why has the economic growth performance of Sub-Saharan Africa been disappointing on balance over the past 50 years? More importantly, what can be d...

When India embraced systematic economic reforms in 1991 and began opening its economy to both domestic and foreign competition, critics argued that...

This book provides an overview of Mexico's economic development since Independence identifying its binding constraints in different periods and the...

India is not only the world's largest and fiercely independent democracy, but also an emerging economic giant. But to date there has been no compre...

As inequality grows rapidly both in post-industrial societies and in the high-growth economies of the developing world, its centrality and ubiquity...

Reforms and Economic Transformation in India is the second volume in the series Studies in Indian Economic Policies. The first volume, India's Refo...

In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the U.S., Mexico, a...

Getting growth going has been rare in the developing world-since 1960 only nine developing countries have succeeded in sustaining high growth. The ...

Given the overwhelming number of ineffective economic reform policies and programs, a central question for international development concerns how s...

As inequality grows rapidly both in post-industrial societies and in the high-growth economies of the developing world, its centrality and ubiquity...

Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers. India's middle class ...

The challenge of how to ensure that working families see their living standards improve over time is central in rich countries. Many argue that con...

One of the most important manuscripts surviving from thirteenth-century England, the corpus of documents known as the Hundred Rolls for Cambridge h...

The term rust belt has rarely been associated with developing countries. In fact, it is commonly used to discuss deindustrialization in advanced na...

Government is a major player in the development of an economy. Government's public financial operations involving mobilization of revenue, and its ...

This volume explores where, how and why the cooperative model is having a distinctive, transformational impact in driving socio-economic changes in...

Since the Second World War, surprisingly few developing countries have experienced a truly sustained episode of economic and social convergence tow...