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Palgrave MacMillan Getting Development Right Structural Transformation Inclusion and Sustainability in the Post-Crisis Era 2013 Edition by E. Paus
The celebratory tone about the emergence of the BRICs and the improved growth in Sub Saharan Africa and Latin America during the 2000s obscures the reality that, for large parts of the developing world, the development challenges are more acute than ever before. After three decades of Washington Consensus policies, deepening globalization, and China's and India's increasing competitiveness in ever more goods and services, many developing countries are now facing three critical challenges: how to engender a transformation of the production structure that creates many more productive jobs, how to make growth more inclusive, and how to stimulate a growth process compatible with environmental sustainability.This book 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. Three features distinguish this book from other current works in the field. First, this book looks beyond the current global crisis and short-term growth opportunities and analyzes the challenges to development from a long-term perspective. Second, books on the barriers to development tend to concentrate on one of the three challenges, e.g. Barbier (2010) A Global Green New Deal on environmental sustainability; Cimoli, Dosi, Stiglitz (2009) Industrial Policy and Development on structural transformation; and Milanovic (2011) The Have and the Have-Nots on exclusion. This book, in contrast, brings the three challenges together to emphasize that they challenges are interlinked and that strategies and policies must begin to recognize these interconnections to address different aspects of the challenges concomitantly. Finally, the contributors to the book include some of the most renowned development thinkers of our time. Table of contents :- 1. Getting Development Right; Eva PausPART I: TRANSFORMING THE STRUCTURE OF PRODUCTION2. Structural Change, Economic Convergence And Industrialization; Dani Rodrik3. Still Blowin' In The Wind: Industrial Policy, Distorted Prices And Implicit Reciprocity; Mario Cimoli, Gabriel Porcile, Elisa Calza4. Social Policy And The Challenges Of The Post-Adjustment Era; Thandika MkandawirePART II: DEMOCRATIZING DEVELOPMENT5. Inequality Of Opportunity, Income Inequality And Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons; Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Paolo Brunori, Vito Peragine6. Does Globalization Help To Overcome The 'Challenge Of Development?' Political Actors And Economic Rents In Central America And The Dominican Republic; Diego Sanchez-Ancochea7. From Authoritarianism to People Power in the Middle East and North Africa: Implications for Economic Inclusion and Equity; Eva BellinPART III: MAKING THE ENVIRONMENT COUNT8. The Macro And Mesoeconomics Of The Green Economy; Jose Antonio Ocampo9. Environmental Sustainability And Poverty Eradication In Developing Countries; Edward Barbier10. Environment As An Element Of Development. The Growing Role Of Energy Efficiency And Environmental Protection In Chinese Economic Policy; Deborah Seligsohn