Role of Elites in Economic Development

1 Alisa DiCaprio: Introduction: The Role of Elites in Economic Development; Part I: Theoretical Considerations; 2 the late Alice H. Amsden: Elites and Property Rights; 3 James A. Robinson: Elites and Institutional Persistence; Part II: The Formation and Circulation of Elites; 4 Andres Solimano and Diego Avanzini: The International Circulation of Elites: Knowledge, Entrepreneurial and Political; 5 Johan Fourie and Dieter von Fintel: Fruit of the Vine? An Augmented Endowments-Inequality Hypothesis and the Rise of an Elite in the Cape Colony; 6 Alison Wolf: Two for the Price of One? The Contribution to Development of the New Female Elites; 7 Bjorn Gustafsson and Sai Ding: New Light on China's Rural Elites; Part III: The Preferences of Elites; 8 Elisa P. Reis: Poverty in the Eyes of Brazilian Elites; 9 Chipiliro Kalebe-Nyamongo: Mutual Interdependence between Elites and the Poor; 10 Xiaowei Zang: Why Are the Elite in China Motivated and Able to Promote Growth?; Part IV: Elites and State Capactiy; 11 Francois Bourguignon and Thierry Verdier: The Simple Analytics of Elite Behaviour under Limited State Capacity; 12 Thomas Cantens: Is it Possible to Reform a Customs Administration? The Role of the Customs Elite on the Reform Process in Cameroon; 13 Monica Pinhanez: Rekindling Governments from Within: Getting Public Sector Elite Officials to Support Government Reform in Brazil; Part V: Grassroots Responses to Elites; 14 Sam Wong: Tackling Elite Capture by the 'Counter-Elite' and 'Co-Opt-Elite' Approaches in Bangladesh and Ghana; 15 the late Alice H. Amsden and Alisa DiCaprio: Understanding the Dynamics of Elite Behaviour in a Development Context

Alice Amsden (now deceased) was Barton L. Weller Professor of Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She authored Asia's Next Giant and the Rise of 'The Rest'. Most recently, she criticized the 'capabilities' approach to poverty alleviation, arguing that healthier and more educated job seekers cannot get jobs because there are none, and they cannot lower their subsistence wage any further. Some of her last work, alongside co-directing the UNU-WIDER research project and co-editing the resulting volume on the role of elites, was on a manuscript entitled 'The Rational Revolution: Learning from Role Models, Deserting Deductive Theory', which maintains that countries develop by studying what each other do, not from poring over Enlightenment propositions in their orthodox or modern manifestation.; Alisa DiCaprio joined the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2012 where she is a Regional Cooperation Specialist in the Office of Regional Economic Integration (OREI). She