Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus

by Ben Fine (Editor), Costas Lapavitsas (Editor), Jonathan Pincus (Editor)

Overview

The post-Washington Consensus has succeeded in becoming the new theoretical underpinning for the World Bank's Structural Adjustment policies in developing countries. This broad-ranging critique explains that without a much broader political economy the post-Washington Consensus is unlikely to provide a coherent framework for successful development policies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134402328
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/02/2003
Series:	Routledge Studies in Development Economics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	518 KB

About the Author

Ben Fine, Costas Lapavitsas, Jonathan Pincus

Table of Contents

1. Neither the Washington nor the Post-Washington consensus: an introduction, Ben Fine 2. Financial system design and the Post-Washington consensus, Costas Lapavitsas and Sedat Aybar 3. Privatization and the Post-Washington consensus: between the lab and the real world?, Kate Bayliss and Christopher Cramer 4. From Washington to Post-Washington: does it matter for industrial policy?, Sonali Deraniyagala 5. Consensus in Washington, upheaval in East Asia, Dic Lo 6. The new political economy of corruption, Mushtaq H. Khan 7. The social capital of the world bank, Ben Fine 8. Education and the Post-Washington consensus, Ben Fine and Pauline Rose 9. The Post-Washington consensus and lending operations in agriculture: new rhetoric and old operational realities, Jonathan Pincus Index

Editorial Reviews

'For those interesed in critiquing the work of the major financial institutions this book will prove a very useful resource, offering some quite subtle and nuanced understandings of the workings of the IFIs and the gaps and shortfalls between rhetoric and practice.' - Progress in Development Studies

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