Edited by Gary McMahon, Private Consultant, Virginia, US, Hadi Salehi Esfahani, Director, Centre for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US and Lyn Squire, Past President, Global Development Network in New Delhi, India

'McMahon, Esfahani, and Squire have edited a useful volume of regional studies on economic growth. Recommended.'

• Contents:ForewordGobind Nankani Introduction: Re-examining Long-run Growth: Insights from Case StudiesGary McMahon, Hadi Salehi Esfahani and Lyn Squire 1. Understanding Economic Growth in Specific Contexts: An Overview of the First Phase of Global Research Project ‘Explaining Growth’Hadi Salehi Esfahani 2. Explaining East Asian Growth: Converting Potential into Actual GrowthPeter Warr3. Explaining Growth in South Asia Siddiqur Osmani4. Economic Growth in Latin America in the Twentieth CenturyGary McMahon5. Understanding Common Trends and Variations in the Growth Experience of MENA CountriesHadi Salehi Esfahani6. Explaining Four Decades of Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Augustin Kwasi Fosu and Ernest Aryeetey7. Growth Experience and Prospects of Central and Eastern European Countries: A SynthesisJan Fidrmuc, Mark Chandler and Julius Horvath8. Explaining Economic Growth in the Commonwealth of Independent StatesGur Ofer and Richard Pomfret9. Diversity in Growth Experiences: The Role of Substitutes for the FundamentalsHadi Salehi Esfahani, Gary McMahon and Lyn SquireCombined References Index

Edited by Gary McMahon, Private Consultant, Virginia, US, Hadi Salehi Esfahani, Director, Centre for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US and Lyn Squire, Past President, Global Development Network in New Delhi, India

'McMahon, Esfahani, and Squire have edited a useful volume of regional studies on economic growth. Recommended.'

• Contents:ForewordGobind Nankani Introduction: Re-examining Long-run Growth: Insights from Case StudiesGary McMahon, Hadi Salehi Esfahani and Lyn Squire 1. Understanding Economic Growth in Specific Contexts: An Overview of the First Phase of Global Research Project ‘Explaining Growth’Hadi Salehi Esfahani 2. Explaining East Asian Growth: Converting Potential into Actual GrowthPeter Warr3. Explaining Growth in South Asia Siddiqur Osmani4. Economic Growth in Latin America in the Twentieth CenturyGary McMahon5. Understanding Common Trends and Variations in the Growth Experience of MENA CountriesHadi Salehi Esfahani6. Explaining Four Decades of Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Augustin Kwasi Fosu and Ernest Aryeetey7. Growth Experience and Prospects of Central and Eastern European Countries: A SynthesisJan Fidrmuc, Mark Chandler and Julius Horvath8. Explaining Economic Growth in the Commonwealth of Independent StatesGur Ofer and Richard Pomfret9. Diversity in Growth Experiences: The Role of Substitutes for the FundamentalsHadi Salehi Esfahani, Gary McMahon and Lyn SquireCombined References Index

Edited by Gary McMahon, Private Consultant, Virginia, US, Hadi Salehi Esfahani, Director, Centre for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US and Lyn Squire, Past President, Global Development Network in New Delhi, India

'McMahon, Esfahani, and Squire have edited a useful volume of regional studies on economic growth. Recommended.'

• Contents:ForewordGobind Nankani Introduction: Re-examining Long-run Growth: Insights from Case StudiesGary McMahon, Hadi Salehi Esfahani and Lyn Squire 1. Understanding Economic Growth in Specific Contexts: An Overview of the First Phase of Global Research Project ‘Explaining Growth’Hadi Salehi Esfahani 2. Explaining East Asian Growth: Converting Potential into Actual GrowthPeter Warr3. Explaining Growth in South Asia Siddiqur Osmani4. Economic Growth in Latin America in the Twentieth CenturyGary McMahon5. Understanding Common Trends and Variations in the Growth Experience of MENA CountriesHadi Salehi Esfahani6. Explaining Four Decades of Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Augustin Kwasi Fosu and Ernest Aryeetey7. Growth Experience and Prospects of Central and Eastern European Countries: A SynthesisJan Fidrmuc, Mark Chandler and Julius Horvath8. Explaining Economic Growth in the Commonwealth of Independent StatesGur Ofer and Richard Pomfret9. Diversity in Growth Experiences: The Role of Substitutes for the FundamentalsHadi Salehi Esfahani, Gary McMahon and Lyn SquireCombined References Index