Law and development of middle-income countries : avoiding the middle-income trap / edited by Randall Peerenboom, La Trobe University, Melbourne; Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago.

"In 1960, there were 101 middle-income countries. By 2008, only thirteen of these had become high-income countries. Why do so many middle-income countries fail to develop after a promising start, becoming mired in the so-called middle-income trap? This interdisciplinary volume addresses the special...

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Other Authors: Peerenboom, R. P. (Randall P.), 1958- (Editor), Ginsburg, Tom (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Law and economic development.
Developing countries > Economic policy.
Middle income countries.
Physical Description:xi, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Law and development in middle-income countries : Introduction / Randall Peerenboom
  • The politics of law and development in middle-income countries / Tom Ginsburg
  • When does "politics" get in the way of development? The developmental state, good governance, and liberal democratic change in Malaysia and Singapore / Surain Subramaniam
  • The rise of middle-income countries in the international trading system / Gregory Shaffer and Charles Sutton
  • The middle intellectual property powers / Peter K. Yu
  • Growing wealth in East Asian middle-income countries with transnational production regimes / John Gillespie
  • Law and development in Central and Eastern Europe : the neoliberal development state and its problems / Bojan Bugaric
  • Judicial intervention in civic-military relations : evidence from Colombia and Mexico / Julio Râios-Figueroa and Fernanda Gâomez-Abâan.
  • The prospects for anti-corruption law in middle-income countries / Kevin E. Davis
  • The delivery of justice in middle-income countries / Juan Carlos Botero
  • The role of courts and constitutions in the new politics of welfare in Latin America / Daniel Brinks and William Forbath
  • The judicialization of health care : symptoms, diagnosis, and prescriptions / Câesar Rodrâiguez-Garavito
  • Nascent protections in emerging giants : struggles to judicialize labor rights in China and Indonesia / William Hurst
  • Environmental challenges in middle-income countries : a comparison of enforcement in Brazil and China, Indonesia, and Mexico / Benjamin van Rooij and Lesley K. McAllister
  • The UN and governance in middle-income countries : a Vietnam case study / Nicholas Booth
  • Law and development in middle-income countries : Conclusion / Randall Peerenboom.