This volume analyzes and compares economic growth in Nigeria and Indonesia during the period from 1950 to 1985, addressing questions as to why one country was so much more successful than the other. Providing some surprising answers for those who believed that the divergence would be found in deeply rooted, long term trends, the authors also offer insight into what has become a reversal of fortune in the late 1990's, as Indonesia has experienced decline, and the Nigerian economy has stabilized.

The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth: Nigeria and Indonesia (Discoveries and Inventions)

Business & Money

Collier, Paul

Gunning, Jan Willem

Bevan, David

Economics

World Bank

The first of two companion volumes on trade shocks in controlled economies, the authors here address the relationship between micro and macroeconomics through analysis of an external macro shock--the coffee price boom--on two developing countries whose similarities end at the level of governmental organization and objectives. Using microeconomic analysis and household survey data, they focus on crop prices, access to consumer goods, and provision of public services in Kenya and Tanzania.

Peasants and Governments: An Economic Analysis

Clarendon Press

This two-volume work gathers together 23 detailed case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, presenting the background causes, descriptions, results, and implications of all the recent economic upheavals in the developing world.

Trade Shocks in Developing Countries: Volume 1: Africa

This second volume of a two-volume work gathers together 23 detailed case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, presenting the background causes, descriptions, results, and implications of all the recent economic upheavals in the developing world.

Trade Shocks in Developing Countries: Volume 2: Asia and Latin America

In this book, original essays by outstanding authors consider key issues in the external economic relations of developing countries.

Trade, Aid and Development: Essays in Honour of Hans Linnemann

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN