Incluye bibliografías e índice.

The role of elites in economic development / Alisa DiCaprio -- Elites and property rights / Alice H. Amsden -- Elites and institutional persistence / James A. Robinson -- The international circulation of elites: knowledge, entrepreneurial, and political / Andres Solimano and Diego Avanzini -- Fruit of the vine? an augmented endowments-inequality hypothesis and the rise of an elite in the cape colony / Johan Fourie and Dieter von Fintel -- Two for the price of one? the contribution to development of the new female elites / Alison Wolf -- New light on China's rural elites / Bjorn Gustafsson and Sai Ding -- Poverty in the eyes of Brazilian elites / Elisa P. Reis -- Mutual interdependence between elites and the poor / Chipiliro Kalebe-Nyamongo -- Why are the elite in China motivated and able to promote growth? / Xiaowei Zang -- The simple analytics of elite behaviour under limited state capacity / Francois Bourguignon and Thierry Verdier -- Is it possible to reform a customs administration? the role of the customs elite on the reform process in Cameroon / Thomas Cantens -- Rekindling governments from within: getting public sector elite officials to support government reform in Brazil / Monica Pinhanez -- Tackling elite capture by the “counter-elite” and “co-opt-elite” approaches in Bangladesh and Ghana / Sam Wong -- Understanding the dynamics of elite behaviour in a development context / Alice H. Amsden and Alisa DiCaprio.