Growth and Policy in Developing Countries
Ocampo, Jose Antonio / Rada, Codrina / Taylor, Lance
Economic structuralists conduct a system-wide analysis of a given economy, including its social context, which can be particularly valuable in determining why poor countries consistently fail to grow. This textbook studies, from a structuralist perspective, the reasons why a host of developing countries have failed to grow steadily at 2 percent or more since the 1960s. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that affect an economy's strength an...