High instability and low growth characterize the macroeconomic performance of most developing countries. Inadequate policies are often to blame. This paper documents the empirical regularities that characterize the relationship between macroeconomic-financial policies, instability, and growth...

"This book represents an initial attempt to compare China, Japan, and South Korea, three close geographical and cultural neighbors whose developmental trajectories, though divergent in the past, have been moving more recently toward convergence"--

When it seems that everything or nearly everything has been said about the prerequisites and prospects of economic growth - in the Polish context, too - it is worthwhile to revisit certain aspects of this phenomenon, which is of vital importance for the functioning and development of society....