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Informationen zum Autor Jose Antonio Ocampo is professor and co-president of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. He has enjoyed a long career of public service in his own country! Colombia! and the United Nations. He has published extensively on macroeconomics! development economics! and economic history. His most recent book is Capital Market Liberalization! edited with Joseph E. Stiglitz. Codrinda Rada is assistant professor of economics at the University of Utah and a former economic affairs officer at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Her paper "Stagnation or Transformation of a Dual Economy Through Endogenous Productivity Growth?" is used as a basic tool of analysis in this book. Lance Taylor is the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development at the New School University. He has taught at Harvard University! the Massachusetts Institute of Technology! the University of Minnesota! and the Stockholm School of Economics. He has written extensively on structuralist macroeconomics! including his textbook Reconstructing Macroeconomics: Structuralist Proposals and Critiques of the Mainstream. Klappentext Economic structuralists conduct a system-wide analysis of a given economy! including its social context! which can be particularly valuable in determining why poor countries consistently fail to grow. This textbook studies! from a structuralist perspective! the reasons why a host of developing countries have failed to grow steadily at 2 percent or more since the 1960s. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that affect an economy's strength and stability! this volume identifies the policy problems that have long frustrated the countries of South and Southeast Asia! the Middle East! North Africa! Eastern Europe! Latin America and the Caribbean! and others! while suggesting new initiatives for change.
