Title: Governance and economic development : a comparative institutional approach
Abstract: Part A Policy reform, institutions and economic performance: the Washington Consensus and its limits from new political economy to new institutional economics, the new political economy - features of the new political economy, rational politics irrational economics, critique of the NPE positive economics negative politics?, the new institutional economics - definition and classification of institutions, the assumptions, axioms and termeinology of the NIE, the functions of institutions, the international design of institutions and the political steering of social processes institutional change and economic performance, the naive model induced institutional change, the supply of institutions collective-action problems and the role of governments, political ecomony institutions and adaptive efficiency, the need for a politico-institutional foundation of policy reform. Part B Governance - theory and practice: governance and economic performance - conceptual considerations, governance what's in a word?, the dimensions of effective governance, improving the quality of policy making through institution building - state strength administration capability and credible commitments, limiting state strength, capacity building implementation and enforcement, key economic institutions, the importance of informal institutions, the components of a market-enhancing governance structure governance in practice - evidence from less developed countries and economies in transition, institutions matter the emipirical evidence, the institutional foundation of developmental states East Asia - getting interventions right, political economy of policy reform governance in the HPAEs, myth or miracle governance and economic performance after the Asian Crisis, governance and systematic transformation - large countries China India and Russia, EU accession candidates the Visegrad Countries rethinking effective governance - politico-institutional structures and economic development in comparative perspective, the evolution of effective governance, how to promote effective gorvernance? the role of international oraganizations, towards a post-Washington consensus?.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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