Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

by Ha-Joon Chang

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How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to 'kick away the ladder' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing countries from adopting policies and show more institutions that they themselves have used.-- show less

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Un análisis histórico de casos que termina demostrando como las fórmulas neoliberales que los países desarrollados proponen (o imponen) a los países en vías de desarrollo son definitivamente una trampa que contradice por completo las vías y estrategias usadas por los primeros para llegar a donde están ahora.

El libro es mucho más que esta (para algunos) obviedad de perogrullo. Hace un recorrido por los distintos elementos que vinculan el desarrollo institucional, la ampliación de derechos laborales, la transición hacia los regímenes democráticos, la eliminación gradual del trabajo infantil y los distintos matices, contradicciones y datos incómodos que pueden surgir en el camino.

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Dr Ha-Joon Chang is Assistant Director of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge

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