Elusive quest for growth economists adventures and misadventures in the tropics
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TextPublication details: Cambridge MIT Press 2001Description: xiii,342p. ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780262550420
- 338.90091724 22 EA-E
- HC59.72.P6 E17 2001
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| 338.9 TO-E Economic development | 338.9 TO-E Economic development | 338.90091724 CO-B Bottom billion why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it | 338.90091724 EA-E Elusive quest for growth economists adventures and misadventures in the tropics | 338.90091724 KO-S State directed development political power and industrialization in the global periphery | 338.90091724 KO-S State directed development political power and industrialization in the global periphery | 338.90091724 KO-S State-directed development political power and industrialization in the global periphery |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-333) and index.
I. Why Growth Matters. 1. To Help the Poor. Intermezzo: In Search of a River -- II. Panaceas That Failed. 2. Aid for Investment. Intermezzo: Parmila. 3. Solow's Surprise: Investment Is Not the Key to Growth. Intermezzo: Dry Cornstalks. 4. Educated for What? Intermezzo: Without a Refuge. 5. Cash for Condoms? Intermezzo: Tomb Paintings. 6. The Loans That Were, the Growth That Wasn't. Intermezzo: Leila's Story. 7. Forgive Us Our Debts. Intermezzo: Cardboard House -- III. People Respond to Incentives. 8. Tales of Increasing Returns: Leaks, Matches, and Traps. Intermezzo: War and Memory. 9. Creative Destruction: The Power of Technology. Intermezzo: Accident in Jamaica. 10. Under an Evil Star. Intermezzo: Favela Life. 11. Governments Can Kill Growth. Intermezzo: Florence and Veronica. 12. Corruption and Growth. Intermezzo: Discrimination in Palanpur. 13. Polarized Peoples. Intermezzo: Violent for Centuries. 14. Conclusion: The View from Lahore.
"Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth, and making aid loans as well as forgiving those loans on condition of institutional reforms.".
"In this book Easterly shows how these solutions all violate the basic principle of economics, that people - private individuals and businesses, government officials, even aid donors - respond to incentives. Easterly first discusses the importance of growth. He then analyzes the development solutions that have failed. Finally, he suggests alternative approaches to the problem.
Written in an accessible, at times irreverent, style, Easterly's book combines modern growth theory with anecdotes from his fieldwork for the World Bank."--BOOK JACKET.
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