| After the Washington Consensus: Restarting Growth and Reform in Latin America Contributor(s): Kuczynski, Pedro-Pablo (Editor), Williamson, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0881323470 ISBN-13: 9780881323474 Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economic OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2003 Annotation: This volume is a successor to the Institute's 1986 volume "Toward Renewed Economic Growth in Latin America, which blazed the trail for the market-oriented economic reforms that were adopted in Latin America in the subsequent years. It again presents the work of a group of leading Latin American economists, who were asked to think about the nature of the economic policy agenda that the region should be pursuing after a decade that was punctuated by crises, achieved disappointingly slow growth, and saw no improvement in the region's highly skewed income distribution. The study diagnoses the first-generation (liberalizing and stabilizing) reforms that are still lacking, the complementary second-generation (institutional) reforms that are necessary to provide the institutional infrastructure of a market economy with an egalitarian bias, and the new initiatives that are needed to crisis-proof the economies of the region to end its perpetual series of crises. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy - Business & Economics | Economic Conditions - Political Science | Comparative Politics |
| Dewey: 330.98 |
| LCCN: 2003040745 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.04" W x 9.14" (1.22 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume is a successor of sorts to the Institute's 1986 volume Toward Renewed Economic Growth in Latin America, which blazed the trail for the market-oriented economic reforms that were adopted in Latin America in the subsequent years. It again presents the work of a group of leading Latin American economists who were asked to think about the nature of the economic policy agenda that the region should be pursuing after a decade that was punctuated by crises, achieved disappointingly slow growth, and saw no improvement in the region's highly skewed income distribution. The study diagnoses the first-generation (liberalizing and stabilizing) reforms that are still lacking, the complementary second-generation (institutional) reforms that are necessary to provide the institutional infrastructure of a market economy with an egalitarian bias, and the new initiatives that are needed to crisis-proof the economies of the region to end its perpetual series of crises. Contributors: Daniel Artana, Nancy Birdsall, Roberto Bouzas, Sa l Keifman, Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski, Ricardo L pez Murphy, Claudio de Moura Castro, Fernando Navajas, Patricio Navia, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Jaime Saavedra, Miguel Sz kely, Andr s Velasco, John Williamson, and Laurence Wolff. |