Gambling on development: why some countries win and others lose
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BookPublication details: London Hurst Publishers 2022Description: ix, 377p., ill. Includes notes and indexISBN: 9781787385627Subject(s): Developing countries | Economic development | Economic historyDDC classification: 338.90091724 Summary: In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed?
Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key ‘development bargain’, whereby a country’s elites shift from protecting their own positions to gambling on a growth-based future. Despite the imperfections of such bargains, China is among the most striking recent success stories, along with Indonesia and more unlikely places, such as Bangladesh, Ghana and Ethiopia. Gambling on Development is about these winning efforts, in contrast to countries stuck in elite bargains leading nowhere.
Building on three decades’ experience across forty-odd countries, Dercon winds his narrative through Ebola in Sierra Leone, scandals in Malawi, beer factories in the DRC, mobile phone licences in Mozambique, and relief programmes behind enemy lines in South Sudan. Weaving together conversations with prime ministers, civil servants and ordinary people, this is a probing look at how development has been achieved across the world, and how to assist such successes.
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/gambling-on-development/
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| 338.9009172 I6 Innovative financing for development | 338.90091724 A6 Andre Gunder Frank and global development: visions, remembrances and explorations | 338.90091724 B7 The BRICs and emerging economies in comparative perspective: political economy, liberalisation and institutional change | 338.90091724 D3G2 Gambling on development: why some countries win and others lose | 338.90091724 H2K4 Kicking away the ladder | 338.90091724 T6E2 Economic development | 338.90091732 C7 Creative economies, creative cities: Asian-European perspectives |
In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed?
Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key ‘development bargain’, whereby a country’s elites shift from protecting their own positions to gambling on a growth-based future. Despite the imperfections of such bargains, China is among the most striking recent success stories, along with Indonesia and more unlikely places, such as Bangladesh, Ghana and Ethiopia. Gambling on Development is about these winning efforts, in contrast to countries stuck in elite bargains leading nowhere.
Building on three decades’ experience across forty-odd countries, Dercon winds his narrative through Ebola in Sierra Leone, scandals in Malawi, beer factories in the DRC, mobile phone licences in Mozambique, and relief programmes behind enemy lines in South Sudan. Weaving together conversations with prime ministers, civil servants and ordinary people, this is a probing look at how development has been achieved across the world, and how to assist such successes.
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/gambling-on-development/
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