Barriers to development: pushing the boundaries

Why some countries have failed to create democracy, wealth and happiness for their people is one of the great questions of our time. This essay encompasses a description of the multiple barriers to development that may have different characteristics, according to the context and the social structures that maintain these conditions. It would be arrogant to pretend to have all the solutions for these problems.

[1]  C. Bartlett,et al.  Managing across Borders , 2003 .

[2]  James A. Robinson,et al.  Why nations fail ? The origins of Power , Prosperity and Poverty , 2015 .

[3]  M. Porter.  Clusters and the new economics of competition. , 1998, Harvard business review.

[4]  W. Easterly,et al.  The tyranny of experts : economists, dictators, and the forgotten rights of the poor , 2013 .

[5]  R. Neirotti.  Cardiac surgery: the infinite quest. Part III--pediatric cardiac surgery: a discipline on its own. , 2013, Revista brasileira de cirurgia cardiovascular : orgao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular.

[6]  G. DeFriese.  From the New York Times— , 1933, North Carolina medical journal.

[7]  D. Sugarbaker.  Clarity of purpose, focused attention: The essence of excellence. , 2014, The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery.

[8]  Benjamin F. Jones.  The Human Capital Stock: a Generalized Approach , 2011 .

[9]  Edoardo Otranto,et al.  Does Crime Affect Economic Growth? , 2010 .

[10]  Na Phelps,et al.  Planning with complexity: an introduction for collaborative rationality for public policy , 2011 .

[11]  B. Montero,et al.  The Myth of ‘Just do it’: Thought and Effort in Expert Action Please do not cite without permission 4. Does thinking interfere with doing? , 2014 .

[12]  C. Dweck.  Mindset: The New Psychology of Success , 2006 .

[13]  S. Mullainathan,et al.  Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much , 2013 .

[14]  Tracy N. LaPorte,et al.  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Preclinical Resources for Product Development , 2013 .

[15]  Diana MacCallum,et al.  Planning with complexity: An introduction to collaborative rationality for public policy , 2012 .

[16]  A. Maslow.  A Theory of Human Motivation , 1943 .

[17]  Max H. Bazerman,et al.  Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It , 2011 .

[18]  W R Blundell,et al.  The social contract. , 1993, Health law in Canada.

[19]  César A. Hidalgo,et al.  The network structure of economic output , 2011, 1101.1707.