TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balcerowicz,Leszek
AU  - Fischer,Stanley
TI  - Living standards and the wealth of nations: successes and failures in real convergence 
SN  - 0262025957
AV  - HD75 .L59 2006
U1  - 339.42 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Convergence (Economics)
KW  - Cost and standard of living
KW  - Wealth
N1  - 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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