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In the late twentieth century, structural adjustment policies became the West's received wisdom as a solution to the economic problems of the South. Based on detailed empirical research, the contributors to this volume take a more heterodox and even critical approach. Indeed, many of the issues raised here are now being assimilated into a new 'Post-Washington Consensus'. The range of geographical coverage matched with the coherence of the approaches taken by the contributors allows striking comparisons to be made.
List of contents
Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; T.McKinley Macroeconomic Reform and Employment: An Investment-Led Strategy of Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa; K.Griffin Macroeconomic Policy for Growth, with Reference to Africa South of the Sahara; J.Weeks Domestic Resource Mobilisation and Enterprise Development in Sub-Saharan Africa; K.Griffin & M.D.Brenner Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty; A.R.Khan The Macroeconomic Context to Promote Social Development and Combat Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean; A.Berry National Poverty Reduction Strategies of Chile, Costa Rica and Mexico: Summary of Findings; D.Alarcon The Macroeconomic Implications of Focusing on Poverty Reduction; T.McKinley The Distribution of Wealth and the Pace of Development; K.Griffin & A.Ickowitz Index
About the author
DIANA ALARCÓN Social Development Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C. ALBERT BERRY Professor of Economics, University of Toronto and Centre for International Studies, Toronto MARK D. BRENNER Research Fellow, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst KEITH GRIFFIN Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside AMY ICKOWITZ Ph.D. student, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside AZIZUR RAHMAN KHAN Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside JOHN WEEKS Professor of Economics and Director, Centre for Development Policy and Research, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Summary
In the late twentieth century, structural adjustment policies became the West's received wisdom as a solution to the economic problems of the South. Based on detailed empirical research, the contributors to this volume take a more heterodox and even critical approach. Indeed, many of the issues raised here are now being assimilated into a new 'Post-Washington Consensus'. The range of geographical coverage matched with the coherence of the approaches taken by the contributors allows striking comparisons to be made.
