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Living standards and the wealth of nations : successes and failures in real convergence / edited by Leszek Balcerowicz and Stanley Fischer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2006Description: vi, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262025957
  • 9780262025959
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.42 22
LOC classification:
  • HD75 .L59 2006
Contents:
I. Some general remarks on the process of catching up -- Introduction and summary / Leszek Balcerowicz and Stanley Fischer -- 1. What a country must do to catch up to the industrial leaders / Stephen L. Parente and Edward C. Prescott -- 2. Elections, political checks and balances, and growth / Philip Keefer -- II. Case studies of successes and failures in catching up -- 3. The Nordic countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : economic growth in a comparative perspective / Olle Krantz -- 4. The experimentalist-covergence debate on interpreting China's economic growth : a cross-country perspective / Wing Thye Woo -- 5. Successes and failures in real covergence : the case of Chile / Vittorio Corbo L. and Leonardo Hernandez T. -- 6. Economic resurgence in the commonwealth of independent states / Anders Aslund -- III. Consequences of accession to the European Union : case studies -- 7. Spain in the EU : the key issues / Jose Maria Vinals -- 8. The Spanish experience in the European Union / Manuel Balmaseda and Miguel Sebastian -- 9. Portugal's convergence process : lessons for accession countries / Abel Moreira Mateus -- 10. Greece : the long process of economic and institutional convergence / Isaac D. Sabethai -- 11. The convergence experience of the Greek economy in the EU : lessons for EU accession countries / Athanasios Vamvakidis -- 12. Real convergence within the European Union : the case of Ireland / Thomas O'Connell and Diarmaid Smyth -- 13. Irish economic development in an international perspective / John Bradley -- IV. EMU entry and economic growth -- 14. When should the Central Europeans join the EMU? : reconciling real and nominal convergence / Jacek Rostowski and Nikolai Zoubanov -- 15. Is full participation in the EMU likely to favor or slow real convergence? / Iain Begg -- V. Conclusion -- 16. Concluding comments / Leszek Balcerowicz.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Some general remarks on the process of catching up -- Introduction and summary / Leszek Balcerowicz and Stanley Fischer -- 1. What a country must do to catch up to the industrial leaders / Stephen L. Parente and Edward C. Prescott -- 2. Elections, political checks and balances, and growth / Philip Keefer -- II. Case studies of successes and failures in catching up -- 3. The Nordic countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : economic growth in a comparative perspective / Olle Krantz -- 4. The experimentalist-covergence debate on interpreting China's economic growth : a cross-country perspective / Wing Thye Woo -- 5. Successes and failures in real covergence : the case of Chile / Vittorio Corbo L. and Leonardo Hernandez T. -- 6. Economic resurgence in the commonwealth of independent states / Anders Aslund -- III. Consequences of accession to the European Union : case studies -- 7. Spain in the EU : the key issues / Jose Maria Vinals -- 8. The Spanish experience in the European Union / Manuel Balmaseda and Miguel Sebastian -- 9. Portugal's convergence process : lessons for accession countries / Abel Moreira Mateus -- 10. Greece : the long process of economic and institutional convergence / Isaac D. Sabethai -- 11. The convergence experience of the Greek economy in the EU : lessons for EU accession countries / Athanasios Vamvakidis -- 12. Real convergence within the European Union : the case of Ireland / Thomas O'Connell and Diarmaid Smyth -- 13. Irish economic development in an international perspective / John Bradley -- IV. EMU entry and economic growth -- 14. When should the Central Europeans join the EMU? : reconciling real and nominal convergence / Jacek Rostowski and Nikolai Zoubanov -- 15. Is full participation in the EMU likely to favor or slow real convergence? / Iain Begg -- V. Conclusion -- 16. Concluding comments / Leszek Balcerowicz.

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