In search of prosperity : analytic narratives on economic growth / edited by Dani Rodrik.

Revisions of papers presented at a conference held at Harvard University, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Australian growth: a California perspective / Ian W. McLean and Alan M. Taylor -- One polity, many countries: economic growth in India, 1873-2000 / Gregory Clark and Susan Wolcott -- An African success story: Botswana / Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson -- A toy collection, a socialist star, and a democratic dud? growth theory, Vietnam, and the Philippines / Lant Pritchett -- Growing into trouble: Indonesia after 1966 / Jonathan Temple -- India since independence: an analytic growth narrative / J. Bradford DeLong -- Who can explain the Mauritian miracle? Meade, Romer, Sachs, or Rodrik? / Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Roy -- Venezuela's growth implosion: a neoclassical story? / Ricardo Hausmann -- History, policy, and performance in two transition economies: Poland and Romania / Georges de Menil -- How reform worked in China / Yingyi Qian -- Sustained macroeconomic reforms, tepid growth: a governance puzzle in Bolivia / Daniel Kaufmann, Massimo Mastruzzi, and Diego Zavaleta -- Fiscal federalism, good governance, and economic growth in Mexico / Maite Careaga and Barry R. Weingast -- The political economy of growth without development: a case study of Pakistan / William Easterly.