In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth

Contents\nAcknowledgments\nList of Contributors\nChapter 1. Introduction: What Do We Learn from Country Narratives?\nPart I: Historical Perspectives on Economic Growth\nChapter 2. Australian Growth: A California Perspective\nChapter 3. One Polity, Many Countries: Economic Growth in India, 1873–2000\nChapter 4. An African Success Story: Botswana\nPart II: Transitions Into and Out of Growth\nChapter 5. A Toy Collection, a Socialist Star, and a Democratic Dud? Growth Theory, Vietnam, and the Philippines\nChapter 6. Growing Into Trouble: Indonesia After 1966\nChapter 7. India since Independence: An Analytic Growth Narrative\nChapter 8. Who Can Explain the Mauritian Miracle? Meade, Romer, Sachs, or Rodrik?\nChapter 9. Venezuela’s Growth Implosion: A Neoclassical Story?\nChapter 10. History, Policy, and Performance in Two Transition Economies: Poland and Romania\nPart Iii: Institutions in Detail\nChapter 11. How Reform Worked in China\nChapter 12. Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growth: A Governance Puzzle in Bolivia?\nChapter 13. Fiscal Federalism, Good Governance, and Economic Growth in Mexico\nPart IV: Economic Growth without Social Development\nChapter 14. The Political Economy of Growth without Development: A Case Study of Pakistan\nIndex