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Globalization and Competition: Why Some Emergent Countries Succeed while Others Fall Behind
Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira
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paperback. Globalization and Competition explains why some middle-income countries, principally those in Asia, grow fast while others are not successful. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 b/w illus. 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; KCG; KCM; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Globalization and Competition explains why some middle-income countries, principally those in Asia, grow fast while others are not successful. The author criticizes both old-style developmentalism and the economics of the Washington Consensus. He argues instead for a 'new developmentalism' or third approach that builds on a national development strategy. This approach differs from the neoliberal strategy that rich nations propose to emerging economies principally on macroeconomic grounds. Developing countries face a key obstacle to growth, namely, the tendency to overvaluate foreign exchange. Instead of neutralizing it, the policy that rich countries promote mistakenly seeks growth through foreign savings, which causes ... Read more
Globalization and Competition explains why some middle-income countries, principally those in Asia, grow fast while others are not successful. The author criticizes both old-style developmentalism and the economics of the Washington Consensus. He argues instead for a 'new developmentalism' or third approach that builds on a national development strategy. This approach differs from the neoliberal strategy that rich nations propose to emerging economies principally on macroeconomic grounds. Developing countries face a key obstacle to growth, namely, the tendency to overvaluate foreign exchange. Instead of neutralizing it, the policy that rich countries promote mistakenly seeks growth through foreign savings, which causes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521144537
SKU
V9780521144537
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About Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira
Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira has taught economics and political theory at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Sao Paulo, Brazil, since 1962. More recently, he has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Professor Bresser Pereira was Minister of Finance in the Jose Sarney administration in Brazil (1987) and with the technical support of two major ... Read more
Reviews for Globalization and Competition: Why Some Emergent Countries Succeed while Others Fall Behind
'At last, a 'new something' that is really new. Bresser Pereira carefully creates the concept of 'new developmentalism' to show the lines along which old national policies are being transformed into vigorous global efforts to catch up. A scholarly work that is in tune with the times.' Alice Amsden, MIT 'After the failure of the Washington Consensus and facing the ... Read more