Books by Justin Yifu Lin

3. Justin Yifu Lin and Celestin Monga, Beating the Odds: Jump-Starting Developing Countries .  An instructive look at how countries have to start growing before the right institutional framework is in place, and how they can get around that.  Haven’t you wondered how China racked up so many years of stellar growth with such a bad “Doing Business” ranking from the World Bank?  One of the better books on developing economies in the last few years.

Justin Yifu Lin, The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off .

That is the new book by Justin Yifu Lin , who is also Chief Economist of the World Bank.  It is derived from lectures delivered in China.  Much of the book is an OK survey, though I did not find it added much insight to extant accounts.