Chapter 1. Introduction: What Do We Learn from
Country Narratives? 1
Dani Rodrik
PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
ON ECONOMIC GROWTH
Chapter 2. Australian Growth: A California Perspective 23
Ian W. McLean and Alan M. Taylor
Chapter 3. One Polity, Many Countries: Economic Growth in India,
1873–2000 53
Gregory Clark and Susan Wolcott
Chapter 4. An African Success Story: Botswana 80
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson
PART II: TRANSITIONS INTO AND OUT OF GROWTH
Chapter 5. A Toy Collection, a Socialist Star, and a Democratic Dud?
Growth Theory, Vietnam, and the Philippines 123
Lant Pritchett
Chapter 6. Growing into Trouble: Indonesia after 1966 152
Jonathan Temple
Chapter 7. India since Independence: An Analytic Growth Narrative 184
J. Bradford DeLong
Chapter 8. Who Can Explain the Mauritian Miracle? Meade,
Romer, Sachs, or Rodrik? 205
Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Roy
Chapter 9. Venezuela’s Growth Implosion: A Neoclassical Story? 244
Ricardo Hausmann
Chapter 10. History, Policy, and Performance in Two Transition
Economies: Poland and Romania 271
Georges de Menil
PART III: INSTITUTIONS IN DETAIL
Chapter 11. How Reform Worked in China 297
Yingyi Qian
Chapter 12. Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growth:
A Governance Puzzle in Bolivia? 334
Daniel Kaufmann, Massimo Mastruzzi, and Diego Zavaleta
Chapter 13. Fiscal Federalism, Good Governance, and Economic
Growth in Mexico 399
Maite Careaga and Barry R. Weingast
PART IV: ECONOMIC GROWTH WITHOUT
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 14. The Political Economy of Growth without Development:
A Case Study of Pakistan 439
William Easterly