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Informationen zum Autor The editors are all colleagues at the United Nations Secretariat's Department of Economic and Social Affairs: JOSE ANTONIO OCAMPO is the Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs! JOMO K. S. is Director of Economic Development and ROB VOS is Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division. Klappentext This volume of analytical studies examines the major differences in economic performance in recent decades between the developing and developed economies. Most developing countries have lagged increasingly far behind, but this growing North-South gap has been masked by the better economic performance of China, India and the East Asian Tigers, implying the expansion of the "middle income" category. The high-profile contributors consider the dynamics of international economic growth, diverging growth rates, economic structures, and sources of demand, successes and collapses in the developing world, and recent episodes of real income stagnation of countries. Several chapters critically review recent misleading claims regarding the relationship of trade liberalization, financial development, development, aid, infrastructure spending, violent conflict, good governance, and industrial policy to economic growth. Zusammenfassung Features analytical studies that seek to explain the major differences in economic performance by considering the dynamics of international economic growth! diverging growth rates! economic structures! and sources of demand! successes and collapses in the developing world! and the episodes of real income stagnation of various countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Understanding Divergences: The Dynamics of International Economic Growth - Richard Kozul-Wright 2. Developing and Transition Economies in the Late 20th Century: Diverging Growth Rates! Economic Structures! and Sources of Demand - Lance Taylor and Codrina Rada 3. The Dual Divergence: Successes and Collapses in the Developing World Since 1980 - J. A. Ocampo and M. A. Parra 4. Growth after Globalisation: A 'Structuralist-Kaldorian' Game of Musical Chairs? - Gabriel Palma 5. Real Income Stagnation of Countries! 1960-2001 - Sanjay Reddy and Camela Minoiu 6. Growth Empirics in a Complex World - Francisco Rodriguez 7. Openness and Growth: What Have We Learned? - Francisco Rodriguez 8. Financial Development and Economic Growth: A Critical View - E. V. K. Fitzgerald 9. Development Aid and Economic Growth: A Positive Long-Run Relation - Sanjay Reddy and Camela Minoiu 10. Have Collapses in Infrastructure Spending Led to Cross-Country Divergence in Per Capita GDP - Francisco Rodriguez 11. The Conflict-Growth Nexus and the Poverty Of Nations - Mansoob Murshed 12. Governance! Economic Growth and Development since the 1960s - Mushtaq Khan 13. Industrial Policy and Growth - Helen Shapiro CONTRIBUTOR AFFILIATIONS RICHARD KOZUL WRIGHT: Senior Economic Affairs Officer! United Nations Conference on Trade & Development. LANCE TAYLOR: Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development! Harvard University. CODRINA RADA: Associate Economic Officer! United Nations Development Policy and Analysis Division. M. A. PARRA: Inter-regional advisor to Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs! UN! New York. GABRIEL PALMA: Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics! Cambridge University. Joint Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics. Member of Joseph Stiglitz' Initiative for Policy Dialogue! Columbia University. SANJAY REDDY: Assistant Professor of Economics at Barnard College! Columbia University and Lecturer in Economics at the School of International and Public Affairs! Columbia University. CAMELIA MINOIU: PhD Candidate in Economics at Columbia University. FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ: Assistant Professor of Economics and Latin American Studies at Wes...
