Diversity in economic growth global insights and explanations
1. Understanding economic growth in specific contexts : an overview of the first phase of Global Research Project "Explaining growth" / Hadi Salehi Esfahani -- 2. Explaining East Asian growth : converting potential into actual growth / Peter Warr -- 3. Explaining growth in South Asia / Sid...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham [England]
Edward Elgar
c2009
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| Series: | Global development network
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 1. Understanding economic growth in specific contexts : an overview of the first phase of Global Research Project "Explaining growth" / Hadi Salehi Esfahani -- 2. Explaining East Asian growth : converting potential into actual growth / Peter Warr -- 3. Explaining growth in South Asia / Siddiqur Osmani -- 4. Economic growth in Latin America in the twentieth century / Gary McMahon -- 5. Understanding common trends and variations in the growth experience of MENA countries / Hadi Salehi Esfahani -- 6. Explaining four decades of growth in Sub-Saharan Africa / Augustin Kwasi Fosu and Ernest Aryeetey -- 7. Growth experience and prospects of Central and Eastern European countries : a synthesis / Jan Fidrmuc, Mark Chandler and Julius Horvath -- 8. Explaining economic growth in the commonwealth of independent states / Gur Ofer and Richard Pomfret -- 9. Diversity in growth experiences : the role of substitutes for the fundamentals / Hadi Salehi Esfahani, Gary McMahon and Lyn Squire Economists have long relied on cross-country regression analysis to identify the determinants of continued growth, but with only limited success. This book demonstrates the value of a different approach |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 423 p ill. (chiefly col.) |
| ISBN: | 1848444397 9781848444393 9781781007822 |