The East Asian miracle: Economic growth and public policy: By the World Bank. (New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1993. 389 pp. $19.95, paper.)

Economics Of Discrimination

The rise of 'the rest' : Challenges to the west from late-industrializing economies.

too fine for undergraduate readers who are new to agrarian debates. On the whole, however, the book is accessible and deserves to be widely read. The condition of rural populations in much of the global South is indeed dire-most of the 1 billion people living on less than a dollar a day live in the countryside. This book offers many important insights into why this is the case, and how the current regime of global capitalism works against a repetition of the agrarian transition that brought wealth and security to the global North.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

In recent years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has re-emerged as a central actor in global economic governance. Its rhetoric and policies suggest that the organization has radically changed the ways in which it offers financial assistance to countries in economic trouble. We revisit two long-standing controversies: Has the policy content of IMF programmes evolved to allow for more policy space? Do these programmes now allow for the protection of labour and social policies? We collected relevant archival material on the IMF's lending operations and identified all policy conditionality in IMF loan agreements between 1985 and 2014, extracting 55,465 individual conditions across 131 countries in total. We find little evidence of a fundamental transformation of IMF conditionality. The organization's post-2008 programmes reincorporated many of the mandated reforms that the organization claims to no longer advocate and the number of conditions has been increasing. We also find that policies intro...

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IMF conditionality and development policy space, 1985–2014

The WTO and the Shrinking of Development Space: How Big is the Bite?

Elites have a disproportionate impact on development outcomes. While a country's endowments constitute the deep determinates of growth, the trajectory they follow is shaped by the actions of elites. But what factors affect whether elites use their influence for individual gain or national welfare? To what extent do they see poverty as a problem? And are their actions today constrained by institutions and norms established in the past? This volume looks at case studies from South Africa to China to seek a better understanding of the dynamics behind how elites decide to engage with economic development. Approaches include economic modelling, social surveys, theoretical analysis, and program evaluation. These different methods explore the relationship between elites and development outcomes from five angles: the participation and reaction of elites to institutional creation and change, how economic changes affect elite formation and circulation, elite perceptions of national welfare, the extent to which state capacity is part of elite self-identity, and how elites interact with non-elites. Contributors to this volume - the late Alice H. Amsden, formerly of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Diego Avanzini, Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Chile Francois Bourguignon, Paris School of Economics, France Thomas Cantens, World Customs Organization, Brussels Alisa DiCaprio, UNU-WIDER, Finland Sai Ding, University of Minnesota, USA Dieter von Fintel, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Johan Fourie, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Bjorn Gustafsson, Goteborg University, Sweden Chipiliro Kalebe-Nyamongo, University of Birmingham, UK Monica Pinhanez, Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Brazil Elisa P. Reis, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil James A. Robinson, Harvard University , USA Andres Solimano, International Center for Globalization and Development, CIGLOB, Chile Thierry Verdier, Paris School of Economics, France Alison Wolf, King's College London, UK Sam Wong, University of Liverpool, UK Xiaowei Zang, University of Sheffield, UK

The Role of Elites in Economic Development

PART I: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS PART II: THE FORMATION AND CIRCULATION OF ELITES PART III: THE PREFERENCES OF ELITES PART IV: ELITES AND STATE CAPACTIY PART V: GRASSROOTS RESPONSES TO ELITES

The role of elites in economic development

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The Demand Side of Social Protection : Lessons from Cambodia’s Labour Rights Experience

Since the existence of the World Trade Center (WTO), member governments are limited in choices when conducting domestic industrial policy, which particularly affects mid-technology countries on the verge of industrialization such as the examples of Brazil and the Republic of Korea The Washington Consensus advocates development through poverty alleviation, free markets, and foreign investment, which compose some of the stringent constraints of the WTO The paper argues for policies that embrace technological development and industrial diversification, while the WTO insists that these become a natural reality as a result of trade However, the authors contend that the development of latecomer industrialization countries was not due to the current WTO rules Therefore potential industrializers should build up their technical capacity in the search of industrialization by circumventing the new barriers imposed by the WTO This paper was written as an insight into the work of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization 2004 that aims to provide a fairer globalization for all

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Alisa DiCaprio

Papers

The WTO and the Shrinking of Development Space: How Big is the Bite?

The Role of Elites in Economic Development

The role of elites in economic development

The Demand Side of Social Protection : Lessons from Cambodia’s Labour Rights Experience

Does the New International Trade Regime Leave Room for Industrialization Policies in the Middle-income Countries?