What Makes Poor Countries Poor?: Institutional Determinants of Development - Softcover

Trebilcock, Michael J.; Prado, Mariana Mota

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857938916 ISBN 13: 9780857938916

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

This important book focuses on the idea that institutions matter for development, asking what lessons we have learned from past reform efforts, and what role lawyers can play in this field.

What Makes Poor Countries Poor? provides a critical overview of different conceptions and theories of development, situating institutional theories within the larger academic debate on development. The book also discusses why, whether and how institutions matter in different fields of development. In the domestic sphere, the authors answer these questions by analyzing institutional reforms in the public (rule of law, political regimes, bureaucracy) and the private sectors (contracts, property rights, and privatization). In the international sphere, they discuss the importance of institutions for trade, foreign direct investment, and foreign aid.

This book will be essential reading for those interested in a concise introduction to the academic debates in this field, as well as for students, practitioners and policy makers in law and development.

About this title

About the Author

Michael J. Trebilcock, University Professor Emeritus and Mariana Mota Prado, Professor of Law, University of Toronto, Canada

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857938916
• ISBN 13: 9780857938916
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296