The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off

by Justin Yifu Lin

Book Overview

How developing countries can help themselves

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.

Since the end of the Second World War, prescriptions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691155895
• ISBN13: 9780691155890
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"