Getting Development Right: Structural Transformation, Inclusion, and Sustainability in the Post-Crisis Era

✍ Scribed by Eva Paus (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Getting Development Right brings together development scholars and practitioners from multiple academic disciplines and policy perspectives to analyze important facets of this triple challenge, to explore interconnections among them and suggest strategies for overcoming the challenges in the current age of globalization.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Getting Development Right....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Structural Change, Industrialization, and Convergence....Pages 27-40
Still Blowin’ in the Wind: Industrial Policy, Distorted Prices, and Implicit Reciprocity....Pages 41-59
Social Policy and the Challenges of the Post-Adjustment Era....Pages 61-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality, and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons....Pages 85-115
Does Globalization Help to Overcome the “Crisis of Development?” Political Actors and Economic Rents in Central America and the Dominican Republic....Pages 117-135
From Authoritarianism to People Power in the Middle East and North Africa: Implications for Economic Inclusion and Equity....Pages 137-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
The Macro- and Mesoeconomics of the Green Economy....Pages 153-172
Environmental Sustainability and Poverty Eradication in Developing Countries....Pages 173-194
Environment as an Element of Development: The Growing Role of Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection in Chinese Economic Policy....Pages 195-212
Back Matter....Pages 213-226

✦ Subjects

Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Economic Policy; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Sustainability Management