Law and Economics in Developing Countries

by William Ratliff and Edgardo Buscaglia

Book Overview

This book focuses on the critical link between legal/judicial systems and successful reform of political and economic institutions and practices in developing countries. The authors demonstrate that poverty is in large part the result of laws, judiciaries, and other legal mechanisms that fail to promote the generation of wealth by all citizens in the private sector. They note the main substantive and procedural legal factors that developing nations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817997725
• ISBN13: 9780817997724
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 9.1"