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(Ebook) Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose by Stefan Dercon ISBN 9781787385627, 1787385620

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Authors:Stefan Dercon
Pages:425 pages.
Year:2022
Editon:1
Publisher:Hurst Publishers
Language:english
File Size:5.47 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9781787385627, 1787385620
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(Ebook) Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose by Stefan Dercon ISBN 9781787385627, 1787385620

In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed?

Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key 'development bargain', whereby a country's elites shift from protecting their own positions to gambling on a growth-based future. Despite the imperfections of such bargains, China is among the most striking recent success stories, along with Indonesia and more unlikely places, such as Bangladesh, Ghana and Ethiopia. Gambling on Development is about these winning efforts, in contrast to countries stuck in elite bargains leading nowhere.

Building on three decades' experience across forty-odd countries, Dercon winds his narrative through Ebola in Sierra Leone, scandals in Malawi,...

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