Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 2000 / / edited by Boris Pleskovic and Nicholas Stern

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817289103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : World Bank, 2001
• ISBN: 1-280-08729-3; 9786610087297; 0-585-45646-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (450 pages)
• Collana: Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics.
• Altri autori (Persone): PleskovicBoris; SternN. H (Nicholas Herbert)
• Soggetti: Economic policy; Developing countries Economic conditions Congresses; Developing countries Economic policy Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Boris Pleskovic and Nicholas Stern -- ; Opening address / Mats Karlsson -- ; Keynote address: Development thinking at the millenium / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- A new global consensus on helping the poorest of the poor / Jeffrey Sachs -- Ten years after The road to a free economy: the author's self-evaluation / Janos Kornai -- ; New Development thinking Consensus building, knowledge, and conditionality / Paul Collier -- Development strategies for the 21st century / Dani Rodrik -- ; Comments / Nancy Birdsall, Francois Bourguignon, Fukunari Kimura -- Rethinking aid / Jan Wilhelm Gunning -- Beyond Rosenstein-Rodan: the modern theory of coordination problems in development / Karla Hoff -- ; Comments / Gustav Ranis, Charles C. Suludo -- ; Crises and recovery Shaken and stirred: explaining growth volatility / William Easterly, Roumeen Islam, Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Creative destruction and development: institutions, crises, and restructuring / Ricardo J. Caballero and Mohamad L. Hammour -- ; Comment / Abhijit V. Banerjee -- The East asian crisis: two years later / Eisuke Sakakibara -- ; Comment / Andrew Berg -- Mexico: five years after the crisis / Daniel Lederman [et al.] -- ; Comment / Alejandro ; Werner -- ; Corporate governance and restructuring: lessons from transition and crises Ownership structure, legal protections, and corporate governance / I. J. Alexander Dyck -- Corporate governance and restructuring: lessons from transition economies / Gerard Roland -- ; Comments / John S. Earle, Rafael La Porta -- ; Social security, public and private savings. The benefits of flexible funding: implications for pension reform in an uncertain world / J. Michael Orszag and Peter R. Orszag -- Household saving in East Asia and Latin America: inequality, demographics, and all that / Orazio P. Attanasio and Miguel Szekely -- ; Comment / Robert Holzman.
• Sommario/riassunto: These are the proceedings of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, which gathers the global perspective of scholars, and practitioners of development policy from academic life, government, and the private sector. The selected topics seek to include new areas of concern, and current research, as well as areas believed to benefit from exposure to recent knowledge, and experience. This year's conference focused on new development thinking, crises and recovery, corporate governance and restructuring, and, social security, public and private savings. The opening address outlines challenges for development, that include the intransigence of poverty in Africa, and ways to establish public-private partnerships at the country, and global levels, while the keynote address identifies equilibrium, and change as the focus of development economics: long-term sustainable growth requires development of a consensus behind the reform policies. Discussions varied from crises and recovery, through perspectives on the recent history of transition economies, to arguments on the possibilities of poverty reduction on a grand scale. Other topics include the exploration of development strategies, revision of the role of aid in providing finance, changing policies, and knowledge transfer, and, how to coordinate development problems.