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MIT Press20061 online resource (443 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-262-02595-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contributors; I Some General Remarks on the Process of Catching Up; Introduction and Summary; 1 What a Country Must Do to Catch Up to the Industrial Leaders; 2 Elections, Political Checks and Balances, and Growth; II Case Studies of Successes and Failures in Catching Up; 3 The Nordic Countries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Economic Growth in a Comparative Perspective; 4 The Experimentalist-Convergence Debate on Interpreting China's Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Perspective; 5 Successes and Failures in Real Convergence: The Case of Chile6 Economic Resurgence in the Commonwealth of Independent StatesIII Consequences of Accession to the European Union: Case Studies; 7 Spain in the EU: The Key Issues; 8 The Spanish Experience in the European Union; 9 Portugal's Convergence Process: Lessons for Accession Countries; 10 Greece: The Long Process of Economic and Institutional Convergence; 11 The Convergence Experience of the Greek Economy in the EU: Lessons for the EU Accession Countries; 12 Real Convergence within the European Union: The Case of Ireland; 13 Irish Economic Development in an International PerspectiveIV EMU Entry and Economic Growth14 When Should the Central Europeans Join the EMU? Reconciling Real and Nominal Convergence; 15 Is Full Participation in the EMU Likely to Favor or Slow Real Convergence?; V Conclusion; 16 Concluding Comments; IndexA group of prominent international economists consider what makes for successful convergence--what policies and economic conditions help poor countries catch up to the living standards of rich countries.The question of convergence, or under what conditions the per capita income levels of developing countries can catch up to those found in advanced economies, is critical for understanding economic growth and development. Convergence has happened in many countries and appears to be taking place now in China and India--yet in general per capita income levels in the poorer countries do not converge towards those of richer countries as uniformly as the analytical models predict. Living Standards and the Wealth of Nations, which grew out of a 2003 conference on convergence hosted by the National Bank of Poland, offers detailed theoretical and empirical examinations of what makes for successful convergence. After general discussions of the theoretical requirements for "rapid catch up" and the possible link between democracy and growth, the book presents global case studies of both non-EU and EU countries, including a provocative comparison of growth in the transition economies of the CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) nations and the 12 non-Baltic states of the former Soviet Union. It then considers nominal as opposed to real convergence in the European Monetary Union. Taken together, the chapters present a consistent argument that reliance on market forces within an open economy in a stable macroeconomic environment, with assured property rights, is the key to rapid economic growth.ContributorsAnders Aslund, Leszek Balcerowicz, Manuel Balmaseda, Iain Begg, John Bradley, Vittorio Corbo L., Stanley Fischer, Leonardo Hernandez T., Philip E. Keefer, Olle Krantz, Abel Moreira Mateus, Thomas O'Connell, Stephen L. Parente, Edward C. Prescott, Jacek Rostowski, Isaac Sabethai, Miguel Sebastian, Diarmaid Smyth, Athanasios Vamvakidis, Jose Maria Vinals, Wing Thye Woo, Nikolai ZoubanovEconomic developmentConvergence (Economics)Cost and standard of livingWealthElectronic books.Economic development.Convergence (Economics)Cost and standard of living.Wealth.339.4/2Balcerowicz Leszek264928Fischer Stanley7953MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451995403321Living standards and the wealth of nations2063928UNINA03857nam 2200529 450 991081595470332120230629221358.01-9788-2452-11-9788-2454-89781978824515hardcover1978824513hardcover9781978824522electronic publication9781978824539Mobipocketelectronic book9781978824546electronic book10.36019/9781978824546(OCoLC)1264470871(CKB)4100000011998661(MiAaPQ)EBC6707620(DE-B1597)606837(DE-B1597)9781978824546(EXLCZ)99410000001199866120220506d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentnrdamediancrdacarrierThe First Fifteen /Susan Oki MollwayNew Brunswick :Rutgers University Press,[2021]℗♭20211 online resource (ix, 257 pages)1-9788-2451-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.Diversity in the federal judiciary -- Bridging the Gap -- Susan Oki Mollway (D. Haw.) (1998) -- Kiyo A. Matsumoto (E.D.N.Y.) (2008) -- Jacqueline Hong-Ngoc Nguyen (C.D. Cal.) (2009), (9th Cir.) (2012) -- Dolly Maizie Gee (C.D. Cal.) (2010) -- Lucy Haeran Koh (N.D. Cal.) (2010) -- Leslie Emi Kobayashi (D. Haw.) (2010) -- Cathy Bissoon (W.D. Pa.) (2011) -- Miranda Mai Du (D. Nev.) (2012) -- Lorna Gail Schofield (S.D.N.Y.) (2012) -- Pamela Ki Mai Chen (E.D.N.Y.) (2013) -- Indira Talwani (D. Mass.) (2014) -- Jennifer Choe-Groves (Ct. Int'l Trade) (2016) -- Karen Gren Scholer (N.D. Tex.) (2018) -- Jill Aiko Otake (D. Haw.) (2019) -- Neomi Jehangir Rao (D.C. Cir.) (2019) -- Continuing Growth -- Timing of growth -- Demographic factors -- Attitudinal factors -- Why aren't these other Asian women Article III Judges?"When Susan Oki Mollway became a federal judge in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii in 1998, she was surprised that she was the first Asian American woman to be appointed on the federal bench in the United States. She would remain an exclusive member of Asian American women who are federal judges until a decade later when Kiyo A. Matsumoto was appointed to the federal bench for the Eastern District of New York. Since then, membership of this small group began to grow in number and in diversity. The First Fifteen recounts the experiences of how the first fifteen Asian American women became federal judges, such as Jacqueline Nguyen who fled Vietnam as a child and Pamela Chen, an openly gay Asian woman, and how they succeeded. The women were interviewed by Mollway herself and the book was written by her as well which offers a unique perspective into these women's lives. Mollway discusses their upbringing, their backgrounds, and their attitudes which contributed to their successful navigation through the appointment process"--Provided by publisher.Women judgesUnited StatesBiographyAsian American Studies, Asian women, federal judges, judge, Japanese Americans, lifetime appointments, lifetime judges, nomination, American justice, judicial system, adversity, American dream, internment camps, World War II, Vietnamese refugees, Indian immigrants, diversity, biography, female judges, gender inequality, workplace inequality, discrimination, discrimination in the workplace, immigrant.Women judges347.732634Mollway Susan Oki1950-1646037MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815954703321The First Fifteen3992841UNINA