CAMBRIDGE – Two and a half years ago, senior staff members of the World Bank approached the Nobel laureate Michael Spence to ask him to lead a high-powered commission on economic growth. The question at hand could not have been more important.
剑桥－两年半前，世界银行高级官员来到诺贝尔奖获得者迈克尔·斯宾塞那里，请他领导一个高规格的有关经济增长的委员会。即将到来的这个问题比以前任何时候都要重要，“华盛顿共识”－有关发展中国家政策制定者可以做和不可以做的声名狼藉的清单－大部分已经不存在了，但是用什么来取代它呢？