Achieving Development Success

This book presents development strategies and lessons based on a large range of ''success'' countries across the developing world. In addition to the country cases it presents regional and overall syntheses that cover orthodox vs. heterodox policies; the importance of capability primary exports diversification and financing; managing diversity; the role of institutions and governance; and human development. The book reveals much diversity in successful development strategies offered by the various select countries: for example the ''disinterested-government'' political economy of China; the democratically supported high-service-sector development approach of India; the ''Washington-Consensus-based'' reforms of Ghana and China; the diversification strategies of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Bahrain and Oman; the dynamic orthodox-heterodox strategy of Malaysia and Vietnam; the effective natural-resource management of Botswana Oman Bahrain and the UAE; the social-sector underpinnings of development in Costa Rica and Tunisia; and the democratic political system of managing diversity in India. This refreshing approach to studying development will interest researchers teachers students development practitioners and policymakers alike.