Deals and development : : the political dynamics of growth episodes / / Lant Pritchett, Kunal Sen, and Eric Werker.

When are developing countries able to initiate periods of rapid growth and why have so few been able to sustain growth over decades? This work provides a novel conceptual framework built from a political economy of business-government relations and applies it to nine countries across Africa and Asia...

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource :; illustrations (black and white)
Notes:This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Deals and development : an introduction to the conceptual framework / Lant Pritchett, Kunal Sen, and Eric Werker
  • Deals and development in a resource-dependent, fragile state : the political economy of growth in Liberia, 1960-2014 / Eric Werker and Lant Pritchett
  • Powerbrokers and patronage : why Malawi has failed to structurally transform and deliver inclusive growth / Jonathan Said and Khwima Singini
  • Navigating the deals world : the politics of economic growth in Bangladesh / Mirza Hassan and Selim Raihan
  • Not minding the gap : unbalanced growth and the hybrid political settlement in Cambodia / Tim Kelsall and Seiha Heng
  • Political settlements and structural change : why growth has not been transformational in Ghana / Robert Darko Osei, Charles Ackah, George Domfe, and Michael Danquah
  • Dominance and deals in Africa : how politics shapes Uganda's transition from growth to transformation / Badru Bukenya and Sam Hickey
  • The disorder of "miracle growth" in Rwanda : understanding the limitations of transitions to open ordered development / Pritish Behuria and Tom Goodfellow
  • The stroll, the trot, and the sprint of the elephant : understanding Indian growth episodes / Kunal Sen, Sabyaschi Kar, and Jagadish Prasad Sahu
  • The politics of structural (de)transformation : the unravelling of Malaysia and Thailand's dualistic deals strategies / Kunal Sen and Matthew Tyce
  • Searching for a "recipe" for episodic development / Lant Pritchett, Kunal Sen, and Eric Werker.