Growth and policy in developing countries : a structuralist approach / José Antonio Ocampo, Codrina Rada, and Lance Taylor ; (with contributions from Mariángela Parra)

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 aff...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Ocampo, José Antonio
Other Authors: Rada, Codrina, Taylor, Lance, 1940-, Parra, Mariángela
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Series:Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia (Series)
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Table of Contents:
  • Economic structure, policy, and growth
  • Growth and policy space in historical terms
  • Growth rates, economic structures, and energy use
  • Open economies and patterns of trade
  • Patterns of net borrowing in open developing economies
  • Financial structures
  • Macroeconomic policy choices
  • Growth and sectoral policy
  • Stylized facts and policy alternatives.