Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781843310273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 196 str.

Ha-Joon Chang

Opis

How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. Adopting a historical approach, Dr Chang finds that the economic evolution of now-developed countries differed dramatically from the procedures that they now recommend to poorer nations. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to 'kick away the ladder' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing counties from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves have used. This book is the winner of the 2003 Myrdal Prize, European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy.

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O autorze

Ha-Joon Chang, geb. 1963, studierte Wirtschaftswissenschaft in seiner Heimatstadt Seoul und später in Cambridge, wo er 1992 promovierte. Seitdem lehrt und forscht er an der dortigen Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften mit dem Schwerpunkt Entwicklungspolitik. Chang arbeitet als Berater für zahlreiche internationale Organisationen wie die UN, Weltbank und die Asiatische Entwicklungsbank. Für seine Arbeit wurde er mehrfach ausgezeichnet.