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Table of Contents:

• The global economy and developing countries
• 1950: the start of a remarkable century
• Static views of a changing world
• Postwar changes in the global economy
• The origins of the global economy
• Economic growth
• Common questions about the developing world and the global economy
• Sustained high growth in the developing world
• The high growth developing countries in the post-war period
• The opening of the global economy
• Knowledge transfer and catch-up growth in developing countries
• Global demand and catch-up growth
• The internal dynamics of sustained high growth
• Key internal ingredients of sustained high growth recipes
• Opening up : an issue of speed and sequencing
• The Washington consensus and the role of government
• Managing one's currency in the course of growth
• The middle income transition
• The political, leadership and the governance underpinnings of growth
• Low growth economies in the developing world

• Natural resource wealth and growth
• The challenge for small states
• The adding up problem
• The crisis and its aftermath
• Emerging markets during and after the global crisis
• Instability in the global economy and lessons from the crisis
• Stimulus in the crisis and the need for cooperative behavior
• Rebalancing the global economy and its consequences for growth
• The excess savings challenge in China
• The openness of the global system and the WTO
• Legacies of the crisis : slow growth and sovereign debt issues in advanced countries
• Periodic systemic risk and investment behavior
• The future of growth
• Can the emerging economies sustain high growth?
• China and India
• India's growth, diversification and urbanization
• Brazil's growth reset
• Energy and growth
• The challenge of climate change and developing country growth
• Information technology and the integration of the global economy
• European integration and transnational governance
• Global governance in a multi-speed world
• The G20, the advanced countries and global growth
• Sustaining growth : the second half century of convergence.

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Author/Creator:

Spence, Michael, 1943-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The next convergence: the future of economic growth in a multispeed world [by Spence, M.]

Subjects:

Economic development

Sustainable development — Developing countries

Financial crises — History — 21st century

International cooperation

2000-2099

Sustainable development

Financial crises

Developing countries

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xvi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

HD82 .S694 2011

ISBNs:

9780374159757 (alk. paper)
0374159750 (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2010047716

OCLC Numbers:

676728660