The quality of growth /

This book is presented in the spirit of continuous inquiry and feedback in framing development thinking. It reaffirms the crucial contribution of market-friendly policies. It also highlights key missing ingredients and fresh evidence. Not a complete review of development, the report examines vital i...

• Main Author: Vinod, Thomas, 1949-
• Other Authors: Dailami, Mansoor, Dhareshwar, Ashok
• Format: Book
• Published: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2000
• Subjects: DESARROLLO ECONOMICO; DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE; DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE; ECODESARROLLO

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• The report team
• Overview
• 1. A mixed development record
• 2. Assets, growth, and welfare
• 3. Improving the distribution of opportunities
• 4. Sustaining natural capital
• 5. Dealing with global financial risks
• 6. Governance and anticorruption
• 7. Seizing the opportunities for change
• Bibliography and references
• Annexes: 1. Broad objectives and instruments
• 2. Framework and evidence
• 3. Distribution of education, openness, and growth
• 4. Measuring natural capital
• 5. Financial openness
• 6. Governance and corruption indexes: aggregation methods, new empirical measures, and econometric challenges
• Boxes
• Figures
• Tables