Author: John Williamson
Publisher: Peterson Institute
ISBN: 9780881321951
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Policymakers around the world have increasingly agreed that macroeconomic discipline, microeconomic liberalization, and outward orientation are prerequisites for economic success. But what are the political conditions that make economic transformation possible? At a conference held at the Institute for International Economics, leaders of economic reform recounted their efforts to bring about change and discussed the impact of the political climate on the success of their efforts. In this book, these leaders explore the political conditions conducive to the success of policy reforms. Did economic crisis strengthen the hands of the reformers? Was the rapidity with which reforms were instituted crucial? Did the reformers have a "honeymoon" period in which to transform the economy? The authors answer these and other questions, as well as providing first-hand accounts of the politically charged atmosphere surrounding reform efforts in their countries.
The Political Economy of Policy Reform
Author: John Williamson
Publisher: Peterson Institute
ISBN: 9780881321951
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Policymakers around the world have increasingly agreed that macroeconomic discipline, microeconomic liberalization, and outward orientation are prerequisites for economic success. But what are the political conditions that make economic transformation possible? At a conference held at the Institute for International Economics, leaders of economic reform recounted their efforts to bring about change and discussed the impact of the political climate on the success of their efforts. In this book, these leaders explore the political conditions conducive to the success of policy reforms. Did economic crisis strengthen the hands of the reformers? Was the rapidity with which reforms were instituted crucial? Did the reformers have a "honeymoon" period in which to transform the economy? The authors answer these and other questions, as well as providing first-hand accounts of the politically charged atmosphere surrounding reform efforts in their countries.
Publisher: Peterson Institute
ISBN: 9780881321951
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Policymakers around the world have increasingly agreed that macroeconomic discipline, microeconomic liberalization, and outward orientation are prerequisites for economic success. But what are the political conditions that make economic transformation possible? At a conference held at the Institute for International Economics, leaders of economic reform recounted their efforts to bring about change and discussed the impact of the political climate on the success of their efforts. In this book, these leaders explore the political conditions conducive to the success of policy reforms. Did economic crisis strengthen the hands of the reformers? Was the rapidity with which reforms were instituted crucial? Did the reformers have a "honeymoon" period in which to transform the economy? The authors answer these and other questions, as well as providing first-hand accounts of the politically charged atmosphere surrounding reform efforts in their countries.
The Future of Freedom in the Developing World
Author: Edgar Owens
Publisher: Pergamon
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Nothing to Fight For
Publisher: Pergamon
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Nothing to Fight For
The Political Economy of Reform Lessons from Pensions, Product Markets and Labour Markets in Ten OECD Countries
Author: Tompson William
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264073116
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
By looking at 20 reform efforts in ten OECD countries, this report examines why some reforms are implemented and other languish.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264073116
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
By looking at 20 reform efforts in ten OECD countries, this report examines why some reforms are implemented and other languish.
Making Politics Work for Development
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464807744
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464807744
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.
Economic Development and Political Reform
Author: Bradley Louis Glasser
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Investments, Foreign
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This work addresses critical trends in the Middle Eastern political economy during the 1980s and 1990s. It argues that external capital has had a decisive impact on economic and political development in the region, demonstrating that the Middle Eastern states lacking substantial exogenous revenues - including oil and foreign aid - have experienced severe fiscal crises and have been forced to pursue neo-liberal economic strategies. By contrast, those states with greater exogeonous resources have undergone milder economic crises and developed more populist economic models.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Investments, Foreign
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This work addresses critical trends in the Middle Eastern political economy during the 1980s and 1990s. It argues that external capital has had a decisive impact on economic and political development in the region, demonstrating that the Middle Eastern states lacking substantial exogenous revenues - including oil and foreign aid - have experienced severe fiscal crises and have been forced to pursue neo-liberal economic strategies. By contrast, those states with greater exogeonous resources have undergone milder economic crises and developed more populist economic models.
Economic Development and Political Reform
Author: Bradley Louis Glasser
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781008188
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
"Providing new theoretical perspectives on Third World political and economic reform, this innovative volume will be of particular interest to political economists, international governmental and developmental organizations, international financial institutions and non-governmental organizations in this region."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781008188
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
"Providing new theoretical perspectives on Third World political and economic reform, this innovative volume will be of particular interest to political economists, international governmental and developmental organizations, international financial institutions and non-governmental organizations in this region."--BOOK JACKET.
The Political Economy of Development in India
Author: Pranab K. Bardhan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Decadent Developmentalism
Author: Matthew M. Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108842283
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Complementarities between political and economic institutions have kept Brazil in a low-level economic equilibrium since 1985.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108842283
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Complementarities between political and economic institutions have kept Brazil in a low-level economic equilibrium since 1985.
China's Reform In Global Perspective
Author: John Wong
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814466484
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This book provides a fascinating perspective of the experiences of China's reform in the past three decades by focusing on China's interaction with and learning from the external world in her unprecedented efforts to reform and open up. After three introductory chapters on broad scope of reform in the political, economic, and social realms, this book deals with lessons from the Eastern Bloc, China's reform in East Asian context, and China and the developed world. The book concludes with two chapters looking to the future of China's political and economic development. In the existing literature of China's reform experience, this book is unique in perspective, topic selection, and in-depth analyses. With contributions from a group of prominent scholars in the field of China studies such as John Wong, Zheng Yongnian, Thomas P Bernstein, Dorothy J Solinger, and Bo Zhiyue, it will be of immense value to anyone who is interested in China.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814466484
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This book provides a fascinating perspective of the experiences of China's reform in the past three decades by focusing on China's interaction with and learning from the external world in her unprecedented efforts to reform and open up. After three introductory chapters on broad scope of reform in the political, economic, and social realms, this book deals with lessons from the Eastern Bloc, China's reform in East Asian context, and China and the developed world. The book concludes with two chapters looking to the future of China's political and economic development. In the existing literature of China's reform experience, this book is unique in perspective, topic selection, and in-depth analyses. With contributions from a group of prominent scholars in the field of China studies such as John Wong, Zheng Yongnian, Thomas P Bernstein, Dorothy J Solinger, and Bo Zhiyue, it will be of immense value to anyone who is interested in China.
Economic and Political Reform in Developing Countries
Author: Oliver Morrissey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780333613375
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
This volume explores the interactions between economic and political reform in developing countries and Eastern Europe. Over the past decade there have been significant moves both towards economic reform - essentially involving a greater role for the market and a lesser role for the state - and political reform, with important steps taken towards democratic forms of government. In some areas political change preceded economic reform (as in much of Eastern Europe), while elsewhere economic and political reform have gone hand in hand, often as a result of external pressure.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780333613375
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
This volume explores the interactions between economic and political reform in developing countries and Eastern Europe. Over the past decade there have been significant moves both towards economic reform - essentially involving a greater role for the market and a lesser role for the state - and political reform, with important steps taken towards democratic forms of government. In some areas political change preceded economic reform (as in much of Eastern Europe), while elsewhere economic and political reform have gone hand in hand, often as a result of external pressure.