This two-volume work gathers together 23 detailed case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, presenting the background causes, descriptions, results, and implications of all the recent economic upheavals in the developing world.
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Paul Collier is a Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economics, University of Oxford; and Fellow at St Anthony's College, Oxford. Jan Gunning is a Professor of Economics at the Free University, Amsterdam.
The absence of formality makes the book accessible to the non-specialist. However, this surface accessibility masks highly sophisticated reasoning and the application of complicated empirical accounting exercises * Journal of International Development * This is a work that should be read by those working on the macroeconomics of developing countries, whether as researchers or policy analysts * Journal of International Development *
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