This chapter concentrates on the development lessons for the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It discusses several characteristics that distinguish these countries from the other low-income countries and least developed countries and that affected their economic growth in the last two...

This chapter evaluates the benefits from open trade for a least developed country (LDC) against the backdrop of the successful experience of the East Asian countries and against the more general backdrop of the debate between inward-looking and outward-looking trade policies and growth strategies....

This chapter reviews the development policies that have been promoted by the Washington Institutions and implemented in developing countries within the framework of the structural adjustment programmes. It examines the lessons from the experience with these policies in light of the very successful...

This book evaluates the policies of least developed countries (LDCs) and the decisions that they now face against the backdrop of the changes in the structure of the global economy and in the globalization process itself. It analyses possible scenarios and alternative trade and growth policies that ...