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Growth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach
Jose Antonio Ocampo
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Hardback. Series: Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization. Num Pages: 200 pages, 0 halftones, 0 color illus., 35 line drawings, 5 tables. BIC Classification: JPS; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424. A Structuralist Approach. Series: Initiative for Policy Dialogue. 200 pages, 0 halftones, 0 color illus., 35 line drawings, 5 tables. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JPS; KCM. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 19. Weight: 422.
Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that affect an economy's strength and stability, the authors identify the problems that have long frustrated growth in many parts of the developing world while suggesting new strategies and policies to help improve standards of living. After a survey of structuralist methods and post-World War II trends of global economic growth, the authors discuss ... Read more
Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that affect an economy's strength and stability, the authors identify the problems that have long frustrated growth in many parts of the developing world while suggesting new strategies and policies to help improve standards of living. After a survey of structuralist methods and post-World War II trends of global economic growth, the authors discuss ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231150149
SKU
V9780231150149
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About Jose Antonio Ocampo
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Growth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach
This analysis, diagnosis, and prescription, embedded in the structuralist tradition of economic thought, is refreshingly different.
Deepak Nayyar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the New School University, New York
Deepak Nayyar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the New School University, New York