Intro -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- I Institutions and Economic Performance -- 1 On Institutions and Growth -- 2 Financial Institutional Reform, Growth, and Equality -- 3 How Do Institutions Lead Some Countries to Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Others? -- 4 Regulation and...

Even minute increases in a country's growth rate can result in dramatic changes in living standards over just one generation. - The benefits of growth, however, may not be shared equally. Some may gain less than others, and a fraction of the population may actually be disadvantaged. Recent...