Governing for prosperity
Why do some nations thrive while others seem trapped in a cycle of poverty, instability and corruption? The 14 contributors to this anthology agree on one answer to this question: the rule of law. While the developed West spends billions of dollars promoting democracy in developing nations, the authors suggest that democracy itself does not bring about prosperity. In terms of economic growth, stability and predictability are more important than democracy, they argue. As evidence, they contrast wealthy authoritarian regimes like Singapore with poor and corrupt democracies like India. Some readers might find the implications of such conclusions alarming. That's all the more reason to read this book, which getAbstract recommends to anyone with an interest in economic development, public policy and the global political order
Print Book, English, ©2000
Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., ©2000
Aufsatzsammlung
vi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780300080179, 9780300080186, 0300080174, 0300080182
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When bad economics is good politics / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Hilton L. Root
Order, disorder, and economic change: Latin America versus North America / Douglass C. North, William Summerhill, and Barry R. Weingast
Political institutions, political survival, and policy success / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita [and others]
The compulsion of patronage: political sources of information asymmetry and risk in developing country economies / Hilton L. Root and Nahalel Nellis
Industrial prosperity under political instability: an analysis of revolutionary Mexico / Stephen Haber and Armando Razo
Socio-political instability and the problem of development / Paul J. Zak
Political institutions, economic growth, and democratic evolution: the Pacific Asian scenario / Yi Feng [and others]
Democracy and the rule of law / Robert Barro
Improving the effectiveness of donor-assisted development / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Hilton L. Root