The transformation of Ireland from one of the poorer countries in Western Europe to one of the best performing is one of the most remarkable economic success stories in recent times. The ten papers in this collection were presented at a conference at Lehigh University in March 2001. Written from...

Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in endogenous growth theory. At a practical policy level, arguments rage about how Japan and the...

Das sub-saharische Afrika beginnt sich immer stärker zu differenzieren. Die Spanne zwischen Ländern mit guten wirtschaftlichen Potentialen und besseren Perspektiven und jenen mit allzu langem Reformstau vergrößert sich. Gerade die Gruppe der aufstrebenden Ökonomien zeigt große...