The state has played a major role in the most important developmental successes. This paper discusses the advances in our understanding of the role of the state in the developmental process over the past thirty years, and the contribution to those advances played by changes in economics, changes...

While it is futile to search for any ‘magic policy recipe’ automatically yielding industrialization, the contributions to the book, we argue, do indeed help in identifying some basic ingredients and principles that successful policy arrangements historically had and have in common. In this...

Changes in a home country's quality-of-life indicators possibly depend as much on changes in world income as on changes in home country growth. The evidence that life gets better during growth is surprisingly uneven. The cross-country relationship between income and diverse indicators of the...