Princeton University Press
The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off - Updated Edition
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- Justin Yifu Lin
- Princeton University Press
- Paperback
- 9780691163567
- 8.5 X 5.52 X 0.94 inches
- 0.73 pounds
- Business & Economics > Development - Economic Development
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Justin Yifu Lin's groundbreaking account of how developing countries can help themselves--now fully updated
How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin--the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank--focuses on what developing nations can do to help themselves. Lin examines how the countries that have succeeded in developing their own economies have actually done it. Interwoven with insights, observations, and stories from Lin's travels as chief economist of the World Bank and his reflections on China's rise, this book provides a road map and hope for those countries engaged in their own quest for prosperity.
Author Bio
Justin Yifu LIN is Dean of Institute of New Structural Economics, Dean of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development and Professor and Honorary Dean of National School of Development at Peking University. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012.
Prior to this, Mr. Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University.
He is Councilor of the State Council and a member of the Standing Committee, Chinese People’s Political Consultation Conference. He is the author of more than 20 books including Beating the Odd: Jump-starting Developing Countries; Going Beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation, the Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off, New Structural Economics: A Framework for Rethinking Development and Policy, Against the Consensus: Reflections on the Great Recession, and Demystifying the Chinese Economy.
He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World.
Source: Center for New Structural Economics at Peking University
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