Economic Reform In Developing Countries

Author : Lyn Squire
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781007659
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic reform in developing countries written by Lyn Squire and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers insights into the process of economic reform in developing countries. It is organized around three factors that are critical to the success of any reform. According to Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, these key dimensions are Reach, Range, and Reason. 'Reach' refers to the ability of reform to be person-centered and evenhanded, reaching all individuals in society. 'Range' considers the institutional reforms and policy changes necessary to implement change and the possible ripple effects on other policies and populations. Finally, 'Reason' captures the importance of constantly asking why a particular reform has been selected.

Author : Oliver Morrisey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349134600
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic and Political Reform in Developing Countries written by Oliver Morrisey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The essays cover a wide range of experience of economic and political reforms, from which some general lessons emerge. The most important one is that political and economic reforms interact in complex ways, with political reform often acting to slow down or even reverse economic reform. Secondly, it is shown that the state has an important role to play in guiding reform and preventing market excesses.

Author : Anne O. Krueger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226454481
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Policy Reform written by Anne O. Krueger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anne O. Krueger has assembled and deftly summarized an excellent set of papers on the major issues in economic reform in developing countries at the turn of the century."--Stanley Fischer, International Monetary Fund The papers and commentary collected in this volume discuss vital contemporary thinking on economic policy reform--in particular, the difficulties that leave so much of the world mired in poverty. Distinguished contributors address issues ranging from education and privatization to exchange rates and telecommunications reform, providing an excellent overview of the current situation and the possible paths into the future.

Author : Dwight Heald Perkins
Publisher : Harvard Kennedy School
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming Economic Systems in Developing Countries written by Dwight Heald Perkins and published by Harvard Kennedy School. This book was released on 1991 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As economic transformation ripples through the former socialistic bloc and economic reform shapes the destinies of developing countries, questions concerning how economic systems are reformed and what role the government plays in that process have become central for the 1990's and beyond.

Author : Khalid Sekkat
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 1441912088
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Market Dynamics and Productivity in Developing Countries written by Khalid Sekkat and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what degree are trade liberalization, productivity, and economic growth correlated? Can economic policies designed to encourage competition and curtail industry protection result in large-scale improvements, such as increased innovation and reduced unemployment? After 20 years of economic reform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), economic performance is still lagging behind many regions of the world. Even in those countries that are the most advanced in implementing reforms, including Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia, industries with low productivity growth and high market power continue to dominate. Moreover, the termination of the Multi-Fiber Agreement and the negotiations concerning further liberalization of trade in agricultural products (under the framework of the World Trade Organization) put these and other countries under pressure of fierce competition from emerging nations. Recent empirical evidence on the impact of reforms in a number of developing countries shows that such persistence of inefficiency and market power is specific to MENA. Showcasing in-depth analyses from Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey (with comparative data from Asia and Latin America), this book focuses on the dynamics of firm entry and exit to help explain the low productivity of the region. The results suggest a number of policy recommendations designed to foster competition, which, in turn, would contribute to innovation, productivity growth, and improved return on capital investments. The book not only reveals important correlations among policy and market factors in MENA, but suggests fruitful areas of research in other developing regions of the world.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264086293
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Reform Happen Lessons from OECD Countries written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays analyses the reform experiences of the 30 OECD countries in nine major policy domains in order to identify lessons, pitfalls and strategies that may help foster policy reform in the future.

Author : J. Faundez
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349252298
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Government and Law written by J. Faundez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The provision of legal technical assistance has in recent years become a major concern for international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, and for Western-based bilateral donor agencies. This book offers critical perspectives for the evaluation of legal technical assistance projects and contains proposals for action and research. Five chapters offer general perspectives on law, state and civil society and the remaining six case studies on themes such as economic regulation, agrarian reform, representation of women and access to justice.

Author : Leonardo Baccini
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199388997
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cutting the Gordian Knot of Economic Reform written by Leonardo Baccini and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past two decades, governments across the developing world have implemented many liberal economic reforms. 'Cutting the Gordian Knot of Economic Reform' shows that international institutions - formal agreements that govern policy formation in member states - made possible some of the most important reforms in developing countries.

Author : Mats Lundahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134231245
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Reform Failure written by Mats Lundahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-04-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economists have moved in recent years beyond analyzing the manner in which the macroeconomies of different countries function and prescribing appropriate policies for dealing with domestic and external imbalances. Increasingly, they have sought to understand the complex interaction between political and economic phenomena. This book considers issues of economic reform in a broad range of settings: * developed countries * transition countries * developing countries Using country specific cases such as Uzbekistan, Burma and Haiti, it focuses on those territories which have encountered problems reforming, allowing the reader to gain an accurate understanding of the factors that inhibit the success of economic reform, the different context in which economic reform is attempted, and the different challenges that individual countries face. An international team of contributors including Bo Södersten, Deepak Lal and Ron Findlay have been brought together to analyze these topical issues, making this an informative and thought-provoking book, of interest to those involved in the field of development studies.

Author : Leopoldo Solís
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483152111
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Policy Reform in Mexico written by Leopoldo Solís and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic Policy Reform in Mexico: A Case Study for Developing Countries is a five-chapter text about political economy that tries to assess the economic developments in Mexico, especially the attempt at economic reform in the early 1970s. The first chapter examines the period of Stabilizing Development to provide a framework necessary for judging the environment in which the attempts at economic reform were undertaken. This chapter is a piece of applied economics that tries to assess the too frequent attacks against that phase of economic policy. The following three chapters discuss the economic policy objectives of Echeverria's administration, the attempt at tax reform, and the change in the structure and practices of public spending. The final chapter evaluates the experience and draws some inferences about the nature of decision making in economic policy and the constraints faced by a government that wants to use economic policy as an instrument for the promotion of social welfare. This book will prove useful to economists, historians, and researchers.