Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Foreword / Strange, Larry -- List of Contributors -- PART I: THE CONTEXT -- 1. Assessing China’s Impact on Poverty in the Greater Mekong Subregion: An Introduction / Jalilian, Hossein / Flower, Benjamin C. R. -- 2. Assessing...

Work developed broadly within the Weberian tradition has argued, for a long time, that there is a link between effective bureaucratic institutions and economic development. In a widely cited article, Evans and Rauch (1999) have demonstrated that there is a strong relationship between a national...