Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (Anthem World History) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Kicking Away the Ladder Exposes the attempts by developed countries to 'kick away the ladder' from developing countries trying to join the economic elite.
Full description- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Published: 01 September 2002
- Format: Paperback 196 pages
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- Categories: Economic Theory & Philosophy | Development Economics | Economic History | International Business
- ISBN 13: 9781843310273 ISBN 10: 1843310279
- Sales rank: 51,123
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Full description for Kicking Away the Ladder
How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. Adopting a historical approach, Dr Chang finds that the economic evolution of now-developed countries differed dramatically from the procedures that they now recommend to poorer nations. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to 'kick away the ladder' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing counties from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves have used. This book is the winner of the 2003 Myrdal Prize, European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy. For more information please see the book website: http: //kickingawaytheladder.anthempressblog.com
