Frontiers of Development Economics: The Future in PerspectiveGerald M. Meier, Joseph E. Stiglitz World Bank Publications, 2001 - 575 pages Edited by Vice President of the World Bank and Gerald Meier, author of several very successful Oxford titles, Frontiers in Development, offers cutting edge thinking from a new generation of dynamic thinkers in development economics. |
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... percent over the next two decades , with 95 percent of the increase in developing countries , where less than 15 percent of the world's capital investment will occur ( Summers 1991 : 5 ) . To reduce poverty by increasing productivity ...
... percent over the next two decades , with 95 percent of the increase in developing countries , where less than 15 percent of the world's capital investment will occur ( Summers 1991 : 5 ) . To reduce poverty by increasing productivity ...
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... percent a year . Chile's per capita income grew at the more sober rate of 1.6 percent a year over the same 30 years , while Ghana's declined at an annual rate of 0.9 percent . Negative average growth rates over the past 30 years were ...
... percent a year . Chile's per capita income grew at the more sober rate of 1.6 percent a year over the same 30 years , while Ghana's declined at an annual rate of 0.9 percent . Negative average growth rates over the past 30 years were ...
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... percent of the population . In other words , instead of bothering about the per capita income of the nation as a whole , we should be concerned about the per capita income of the bottom quintile . Instead of equating a country's ...
... percent of the population . In other words , instead of bothering about the per capita income of the nation as a whole , we should be concerned about the per capita income of the bottom quintile . Instead of equating a country's ...
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... percent of the population ( " quintile income " ) and the growth rate of the per capita income of that poorest 20 percent ( " quintile growth rate " ) . Second , these quintile objectives are likely to correlate better with other ...
... percent of the population ( " quintile income " ) and the growth rate of the per capita income of that poorest 20 percent ( " quintile growth rate " ) . Second , these quintile objectives are likely to correlate better with other ...
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... percent of the population . So the suggestion that we concentrate on the poorest 20 percent is the pragmatic part of the recommendation . An advantage of designing policy by focusing attention on the poor- est 20 percent is that one ...
... percent of the population . So the suggestion that we concentrate on the poorest 20 percent is the pragmatic part of the recommendation . An advantage of designing policy by focusing attention on the poor- est 20 percent is that one ...
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Page 369 - It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new...
Page 536 - It deserves to be remarked, perhaps, that it is in the progressive state, while the society is advancing to the further acquisition, rather than when it has acquired its full complement of riches, that the condition of the labouring poor, of the great body of the people, seems to be the happiest and the most comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of the society....
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Page 186 - Families whose total earnings are insufficient to obtain the minimum necessaries for the maintenance of merely physical efficiency.
Page 510 - For a very small expense the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.
Page 369 - For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness...
Page 355 - Institutions are not necessarily or even usually created to be socially efficient; rather they, or at least the formal rules, are created to serve the interests of those with the bargaining power to create new rules.
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Page 396 - This long appeared to me a great difficulty: but it arises in chief part from the deeply-seated error of considering the physical conditions of a country as the most important...
Page 29 - To summarize our general proposition: countries' effective potentials for rapid productivity growth by catch-up are not determined solely by the gaps in levels of technology, capital intensity, and efficient allocation that separate them from the productivity leaders. They are restricted also by their access to primary materials and more generally because their market scales, relative factor supplies, and income-constrained patterns of demand make their technical capabilities and their product structures...