Institutions and development
By: Mary M. Shirley
Series: Advances in new institutional analysis; Advances in new institutional analysis
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781845429683
Subjects: Financial institutions; Economic assistance; Economic development; International agencies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Why are poor countries poor?; title: Most people live in poor countries; title: Explanations that ignore institutions are inadequate; title: Institutional explanations for underdevelopment; title: What are the institutions that support development?; title: 3. Market-supportive institutions; title: How did market-supportive institutions emerge?; title: Why do countries fail to develop market-supportive institutions?; title: The challenge ahead; title: 4. Can foreign aid promote development?; title: The foreign aid community is burgeoning; title: Aid has a poor track record in promoting growth or improving institutions; title: Why aid agencies are poor tools to promote institutional reforms; title: Aid in inhospitable institutional environments leads to pro forma reforms; title: A bias towards optimism; title: Can aid avoid the ill effects of damaging institutions?; title: New institutional economics is not good news for foreign aid; title: 5. Can we measure institutions and institutional change?; title: How to be precise though vague; title: The democracy debate; title: Money for "good" institutions : the millennium challenge account; title: The problems with aid agency ratings : the World Bank's CPIA; title: How can we improve institutions if we can't measure them?; title: 6. Institutions and the reform of urban water systems; title: What economists generally agree about with respect to water and sanitation; title: How water and sanitation systems usually operate in the real world; title: What are the outcomes of water reforms?; title: An institutional framework for studying water system reform; title: Institutions at work : water and sanitation reform in Buenos Aires and Santiago; title: Conclusion; title: 7. The role of scholars and scholarship in economic development; title: Scholars and the European Enlightenment; title: The marketplace for scholars in developed and underdeveloped countries; title: When do scholars influence change in policies, paradigms, and institutions? Some hypotheses; title: When do scholars influence change in policies, paradigms, and institutions? Case studies; title: Conclusion; title: 8. Where do we go from here?