Chapter 5. A Toy Collection, a Socialist Star, and a Democratic Dud? Growth Theory, Vietnam, and the Philippines

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Chapter 1. Introduction: What Do We Learn from Country Narratives? 1
6. Part I: Historical Perspectives on Economic Growth
7. Chapter 2. Australian Growth: A California Perspective 23
8. Chapter 3. One Polity, Many Countries: Economic Growth in India, 1873–2000 53
9. Chapter 4. An African Success Story: Botswana 80
10. Part II: Transitions Into and Out of Growth
11. Chapter 5. A Toy Collection, a Socialist Star, and a Democratic Dud? Growth Theory, Vietnam, and the Philippines 123
12. Chapter 6. Growing Into Trouble: Indonesia After 1966 152
13. Chapter 7. India since Independence: An Analytic Growth Narrative 184
14. Chapter 8. Who Can Explain the Mauritian Miracle? Meade, Romer, Sachs, or Rodrik? 205
15. Chapter 9. Venezuela’s Growth Implosion: A Neoclassical Story? 244
16. Chapter 10. History, Policy, and Performance in Two Transition Economies: Poland and Romania 271
17. Part Iii: Institutions in Detail
18. Chapter 11. How Reform Worked in China 297
19. Chapter 12. Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growth: A Governance Puzzle in Bolivia? 334
20. Chapter 13. Fiscal Federalism, Good Governance, and Economic Growth in Mexico 399
21. Part IV: Economic Growth without Social Development
22. Chapter 14. The Political Economy of Growth without Development: A Case Study of Pakistan 439
23. Index 473