Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-201
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Sex Selection ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Science Index ◽  
The World

Lena Edlund of Columbia University reviews “Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men” by Mara Hvistendahl. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins: Explores the consequences of the policies underlying sex selection in favor of males in developing countries and considers the West's role in creating them. Discusses the demographer; the parent; the economist; the doctor; the imperialist; the student; the doomsayer; the geneticist; the general; the feminist; the bride; the prostitute; the bachelor; the world; and the baby. Hvistendahl is a correspondent for Science. Index.

Book Reviews

2006 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-468
Author(s):  
Zoltán Ádám ◽  
László Csaba ◽  
András Bakács ◽  
Zoltán Pogátsa
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
European Studies ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
East European ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

István Csillag - Péter Mihályi: Kettős kötés: A stabilizáció és a reformok 18 hónapja [Double Bandage: The 18 Months of Stabilisation and Reforms] (Budapest: Globális Tudás Alapítvány, 2006, 144 pp.) Reviewed by Zoltán Ádám; Marco Buti - Daniele Franco: Fiscal Policy in Economic and Monetary Union. Theory, Evidence and Institutions (Cheltenham/UK - Northampton/MA/USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 2005, 320 pp.) Reviewed by László Csaba; Piotr Jaworski - Tomasz Mickiewicz (eds): Polish EU Accession in Comparative Perspective: Macroeconomics, Finance and the Government (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College of London, 2006, 171 pp.) Reviewed by András Bakács; Is FDI Based R&D Really Growing in Developing Countries? The World Investment Report 2005. Reviewed by Zoltán Pogátsa

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 746-747
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Research School ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Collapse

Veronica Rappoport of Columbia University reviews “On the Brink of Deglobalization: An Alternative Perspective on the Causes of the World Trade Collapse” by Peter A. G. van Bergeijk. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Explores the breakdown of international trade and capital flows in 2008-09 and presents challenges to the mainstream narrative for the world trade collapse. Discusses setting the stage; moving from peak to trough; the trade finance confusion--tales of capital, finance, credit, and trade; the international value chain myth; whether protectionism is just around the corner; an alternative hypothesis--the forgotten role of trade uncertainty; and testing the theories.0 Van Bergeijk is Professor of International Economics/Macroeconomics with the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University and the CERES Research School for Resource Studies for Development at Utrecht University. Index.”

Searching for new Sources of growth. Are the Developing Countries Catching up with the Developed ones?

2015 ◽  
pp. 30-53
Author(s):  
V. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
The West ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Divergence ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Relative Standing

This paper examines the trajectory of growth in the Global South. Before the 1500s all countries were roughly at the same level of development, but from the 1500s Western countries started to grow faster than the rest of the world and PPP GDP per capita by 1950 in the US, the richest Western nation, was nearly 5 times higher than the world average and 2 times higher than in Western Europe. Since 1950 this ratio stabilized - not only Western Europe and Japan improved their relative standing in per capita income versus the US, but also East Asia, South Asia and some developing countries in other regions started to bridge the gap with the West. After nearly half of the millennium of growing economic divergence, the world seems to have entered the era of convergence. The factors behind these trends are analyzed; implications for the future and possible scenarios are considered.

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