Dani Rodrik's "Rethinking Growth Policies in the Developing World"

Dani Rodrik, a professor at Harvard University, is well-known for his innovative and provocative thoughts pertaining to neo-classical approaches to growth policies in the developing countries. In "Rethinking Growth Policies in the Developing Countries," he highlights the flaws and weakness of a common set of policy prescriptions propounded by many economists in the West.

This paper was read by my students at the Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University. The students are government officers from several developing countries. They are on their study leaves, in pursuing a Master's degree. Their comments, which are based on their career experiences, are indeed quite consistent with Professor Rodrik's critics. Their comments will be posted in this blog.