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Institutional change and economic development /

The issue of institutional development has come to prominence during the last decade or so. During this period, even the IMF and the World Bank, which used to treat institutions as mere 'details', have come to emphasize their role in economic development. However, there are still some impo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chang, Ha-Joon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : United Nations University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Institutional change and economic development: an introduction / Ha-Joon Chang
  • pt. I: Theoretical Overview
  • Understanding the relationship between institutions and economic development
  • some key theoretical issues / Ha-Joon Chang
  • Extending the 'institutional' turn: property, politics and development trajectories / Peter B. Evans
  • Institutionalism ancient, old, and new: a historical perspective on institutions and uneven development / Erik S. Reinert
  • pt. II: Evolution of Particular Institutions
  • Modern bureaucracy / John Toye
  • Central banks as agents of economic development / Gerald Epstein
  • Corporate governance, innovative enterprise, and economic development / William Lazonick
  • The political economy of taxation and tax reform in developing countries / Jonathan di John
  • The rule of law, legal traditions, and economic growth: the East Asian example / Meredith Jung-En Woo.
  • pt. III: Country Experiences
  • State formation and the construction of institutions for the first industrial nation / Patrick Karl O'Brien
  • The Role of federalism in developing the US during nineteenth-century globalization / Eric Rauchway
  • Institutions and economic growth: the successful experience of Switzerland, 1870-1950 / Thomas David and André Mach
  • The rise and halt of economic development in Brazil, 1945-2004: industrial catching-up, institutional innovation and financial fragility / Leonardo Burlamaqui, José A.P. de Souza and Nelson H. Barbosa-Filho
  • Rethinking import-substituting industrialization: development strategies and institutions in Taiwan and China / Tianbiao Zhu
  • Developmental nationalism and economic performance in Africa: the case of three 'successful' African economies / Julius Kiiza.