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Living standards and the wealth of nations : successes and failures in real convergence /

A group of prominent international economists consider what makes for successful convergence--what policies and economic conditions help poor countries catch up to the living standards of rich countries. The question of convergence, or under what conditions the per capita income levels of developing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Balcerowicz, Leszek, Fischer, Stanley
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What a country must do to catch up to the industrial leaders / Stephen L. Parente and Edward C. Prescott
  • Elections, political checks and balances, and growth / Philip Keefer
  • Nordic countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : economic growth in a comparative perspective / Olle Krantz
  • Experimentalist-convergence debate on interpreting China's economic growth : a cross-country perspective / Wing Thye Woo
  • Successes and failures in real convergence : the case of Chile / Vittorio Corbo L. and Leonardo Hernández T.
  • Economic resurgence in the commonwealth of independent states / Ånders Aslund
  • Spain in the EU : the key issues / José Maria Vin̋als
  • Spanish experience in the European Union / Manuel Balmaseda and Miguel Sebastián
  • Portugal's convergence process : lessons for accession countries / Abel Moreira Mateus
  • Greece : the long process of economic and institutional convergence / Isaac D. Saberthai
  • Convergence experience of the Greek economy in the EU : lessons for EU accession countries / Athanasios Vamvakidis
  • Real convergence within the European Union : the case of Ireland / Thomas O'Connell and Diarmaid Smyth
  • Irish economic development in an international perspective / John Bradley
  • When should the Central Europeans join the EMU? Reconciling real and nominal convergence / Jacek Rostowski and Nikolai Zoubanov
  • Is full participation in the EMU likely to favor or slow real convergence? / Iain Begg.