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Development policy as public finance.
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ISBN: 0198773676 0198773668 9780198773672 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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The challenge of sustainable development in South Africa : unlocking people's creativity
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ISBN: 0195784189 0195786793 9780195784183 9780195786798 Year: 2003 Volume: 2003 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

In search of prosperity
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ISBN: 0691092699 0691092680 1283856239 1400845890 9781400845897 9780691092690 9780691092683 9780691092690 Year: 2003 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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The economics of growth has come a long way since it regained center stage for economists in the mid-1980s. Here for the first time is a series of country studies guided by that research. The thirteen essays, by leading economists, shed light on some of the most important growth puzzles of our time. How did China grow so rapidly despite the absence of full-fledged private property rights? What happened in India after the early 1980's to more than double its growth rate? How did Botswana and Mauritius avoid the problems that other countries in sub--Saharan Africa succumbed to? How did Indonesia manage to grow over three decades despite weak institutions and distorted microeconomic policies and why did it suffer such a collapse after 1997? What emerges from this collective effort is a deeper understanding of the centrality of institutions. Economies that have performed well over the long term owe their success not to geography or trade, but to institutions that have generated market-oriented incentives, protected property rights, and enabled stability. However, these narratives warn against a cookie-cutter approach to institution building. The contributors are Daron Acemoglu, Maite Careaga, Gregory Clark, J. Bradford DeLong, Georges de Menil, William Easterly, Ricardo Hausmann, Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufmann, Massimo Mastruzzi, Ian W. McLean, Lant Pritchett, Yingyi Qian, James A. Robinson, Devesh Roy, Arvind Subramanian, Alan M. Taylor, Jonathan Temple, Barry R. Weingast, Susan Wolcott, and Diego Zavaleta.

The Sources of Economic Growth in OECD Countries
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ISBN: 9264199454 9786610083725 1280083727 9264199462 Year: 2003 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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Understand growth disparities between OECD countries over the past twenty years through identification and analysis of underlying factors. Growth patterns through the 1990s and into this decade have turned received wisdom on its head. For most of the post-war period, OECD countries with relatively low GDP per capita grew faster than richer countries. Since the late 1990s, however, that pattern has broken down with the United States notably drawing further ahead of the field. This publication provides a comprehensive overview of growth drivers across the OECD and the extent to which disparities are attributable to factors like new technology and R&D, macroeconomic policy, education and training, labour market flexibility, product market competition, and barriers to business start-up and closure.

Making globalisation sustainable ? : The Johannesburg summit on sustainable development and beyond
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ISBN: 9054873507 Year: 2003 Publisher: Brussels : VUB University Press,

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The World Summit on Sustainable Development was held in Johannesburg from 26 August to 4 September 2002. It was convened by the United Nations to provide renewed political impetus for a comprehensive effort to push forward the sustainable development agenda throughout the world and respond to the new challenges and opportunities that have arisen since the Rio Summit , held in 1992. The Johannesburg Summit resulted in a consensus on a plan of implementation and a short political declaration. The Department of Human Ecology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), the Institut de Gestion de l'Environnement et d'Aménagement du Territoire of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the University Centre for Development Co-operation (UCOS) and the Brussels Office of the British Council organised a symposium on "Making Globalisation Sustainable ? The Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development and beyond". It took place on 12 November 2002, at the VUB, attended by about three hundred participants. These proceedings are a result of the symposium, which provided a forum for policy-makers and academics to review the results of the Summit and to analyse implications for the European Union and its Member States, the developing countries and North-South relations. It proved an excellent opportunity to debate on the main issue : the way forward beyond the UN Summit of Johannesburg ! The organisation of the symposium and the publication of these proceedings have been made possible by the financial support provided by the VUB and the ULB, the British Council, the Belgian State Secretary for Energy and Sustainable Development, the Flemish Inter-University Council (VLIR) and the Brussels-Capital Region.

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