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World economic performance over the last 50 years has been spectacular. The postwar period has witnessed impressive growth rates in Western Europe and Japan, and in recent times China and India. This new book discusses these issues and tackles topical questions such as; what are the socio-economic and institutional factors that have contributed to this impressive performance? Will China and India continue to grow at the same rate over the next two decades? What are the prospects for Japan, the US and other advanced economies? The book brings together contributions by eminent scholars including the late Angus Maddison, Professors Justin Lin, Bob Gordon, Ross Garnaut, Bart van Ark and others to provide answers to these fascinating questions. The chapters analyse the economic performance of selected countries including China, India, Japan, Indonesia and the US, as well as Western Europe, Latin America and developing countries as a group. The time period of the study is from 1850 to the present and includes forecasts to 2030.
This well-documented book will be of considerable interest to development economists and country specialists working on countries such as China and India, economic historians who are interested in explaining the growth performance of countries, economists and economic statisticians who are interested in the measurement issues, and international organizations such as the OECD, World Bank and the UN. General readers and non-specialists who are interested in the world economic performance will also find much to interest them in this book.
Contributors include: D. Blades, K. Fukao, R. Garnaut, R.J. Gordon, A.A. Hofman, D. Lal, A. Maddison, S. Menshikov, M. O'Mahony, D.S.P. Rao, O. Saito, A. Szirmai, M.P. Timmer, B. van Ark, P. van der Eng, F. Villarreal, H.X. Wu, J. Yifu Lin
Contents
Contents:
1. Introduction
D.S. Prasada Rao and Bart van Ark
2. Six Transformations in China: 960-2030
Angus Maddison
3. The Needham Puzzle, the Weber Question and China's Miracle: Long Term Performance since the Sung Dynasty
Justin Yifu Lin
4. An Indian Miracle?
Deepak Lal
5. Analysis of Russian Performance since 1990 and Future Outlook
Stanislav Menshikov
6. Japan's Alternating Phases of Growth and Future Outlook
Kyoji Fukao and Osamu Saito
7. Making the International System Work for the Platinum Age
Ross Garnaut
8. Total Factor Productivity and Economic Growth in Indonesia
Pierre van der Eng
9. Explaining Success and Failure in Economic Development
Adam Szirmai
10. Past, Present and Future Economic Growth in Latin America
André A. Hofman and Francisco Villarreal
11. Europe's Productivity Performance in Comparative Perspective: Trends, Causes and Projections
Bart van Ark, Mary O'Mahony and Marcel P. Timmer
12. Revisiting US Productivity Growth over the Past Century with a View of the Future
Robert J. Gordon
Epilogue: Life and Work of Angus Maddison
Confessions of a Chiffrephile
Angus Maddison
Research Objectives and Results, 1952-2002
Angus Maddison
A Story Behind Each Number - Angus Maddison (1926-2010)
Derek Blades, Bart van Ark and Harry X. Wu
Index
