Development Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries

What lessons can be learnt from 'developed' countries that might be useful for developing and emerging economies? With an emphasis on long-term growth and development, this book provides historical accounts of the development strategies of a select set of advanced countries. Each case study typically presents the country's 'successes' and the root causes of those successes. Organized into three parts, it covers The Nordics (Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark), Other Industrially Advanced Countries (Japan, Ireland, and Switzerland), and Transition Economies (Czech, Hungary, and Poland). Although the book stresses that development strategies are, by and large, country and context-specific, the historical accounts are full of recurrent themes, which should provide useful lessons for developing countries and emerging economies. Contributors to this volume - Adne Cappelen, Research Department of Statistics Norway Laszlo Csaba, Central European University Denise Currie, University of Ulster Ronald Findlay, Columbia University Augustin Kwasi Fosu, UNU-WIDER Markus Jantti, Stockholm University Fukunari Kimura, Keio University Ari Kokko, Copenhagen Business School Grzegorz Kolodko, Kozminski University Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Aalborg University Lars Mjoset, University of Oslo Vladimir Popov, UN-DESA Jan Svejnar, Columbia University Paul Teague, Queen's University Belfast Milica Uvalic, University of Perugia Rolf Weder, University of Basel Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz Juhana Vartiainen, National Institute of Economic Research (Konjunkturinstitutet) Sweden