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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Washington consensus"”.
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Implementing Economic Reforms in Mexico: The Washington Consensus as a Roadmap for Developing Countries
… and public expenditure priorities, using the Washington Consensus guidelines. Second, is to assess to continued viability of the Washington Consensus as a model for developing economies. The two methodologies used in this paper are case study and analysis of aggregated data. A case study of …
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Drivers of Change: Explaining IMF Low Income Country Reform in the Post Washington Consensus
… were cognizant of growing resistance to Washington Consensus reforms and embraced less coercive and more participatory means to increase LIC buy in into concessionary lending programs. The scope and character of contemporary IMF reforms paralleled similar calls for rethinking how to `do' …
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The influence of the Washington Consensus programme on the transitional economies of Eastern Europe – a firm level micro economic analysis.
This research explores the effectiveness of the Washington Consensus (WC) programme as a mechanism for improving national welfare in transition and emerging economies. The programme, so named, by Williamson (1989) who coined the phrase to explain the influence of the International Finance …
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Beijing Consensus: alternative for Africa's development challenges? The case for Zimbabwe
The research aimed to study whether the Beijing Consensus, a Chinese development model is an alternative development model for Africa. The study used Zimbabwe's plan to collateralise its natural resources mainly minerals under the Angola Model strategy as a test case. Zimbabwe's economic revival is …
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Development solutions in a post-consensus world
… in the South. A critical analysis of the popular Washington Consensus strategy is provided. The author contends these policies underutilize recent advances in the theory of economic development as well as international political economy. Empirical data is used throughout the paper to support the …
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Market organisation and the process of economic development: the case of the partially liberalised cocoa market in Ghana.
… markets. Under the neoliberal teachings of the Washington Consensus, liberalised markets have replaced systems of government control, with disappointing results. Recognising the challenges created by the universal implementation of liberalisation policies, the attention of development …
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The Origins and Legacy of a Currency Board in Argentina
… the story of how Menem aligned himself to the Washington Consensus as a means to win a Presidential election. This ideological alignment influences and is influenced by a (2) reconstitution of the Peronist Party’s historically entrenched identity. This in turn re-fashion the whole system of …
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Africa returning East : can the China development model travel to Africa?
… governments are beginning to challenge the 'Washington Consensus' by shifting towards a model based on China's development gains. However, the political economy of African countries does not support a complete adoption of China's socialist, state-centric model. The null would suggest African …
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Trade liberalisation, globalisation and the cocoa industry in Ghana: the case of the smallholder cocoa farmers
… (COCOBOD) as was recommended by them under the Washington Consensus and rather adopted a” meso model” of partial liberalisation of the cocoa sector after skilful negotiations. The thesis makes a significant, original contribution to knowledge in the field of economic development through the …
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Water management in Latin America: political resistance strategies and types of community. Comparative case studies of Argentina, Brazil and Colombia
… and the economic mainstream represented by Washington Consensus and Post-Washington Consensus which, in turn, are the driving forces of political resistance. This study examines resistance movements in this context. By examining three case studies, namely Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, this …
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Strategic decision-making in development theory and practice : a learning approach to democratic development
… for widespread discontent with the so-called ‘Washington consensus’ is the exclusion of the majority of people from the governance of their development. An implication is that ‘development’ will continue to fail people until decision-making structures are altered to reflect the views of those …
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A light in the dark : labor reform in Guatemala during the FRG administration, 2000-2004
… offset the detrimental effects of the so-called Washington Consensus, and promote economic development. In Guatemala however, the FRG Presidential administration (2000 - 2004) seemed an unlikely candidate for this task. Linked to the military and marked by a conservative record, the FRG …
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New Maps for Africa? Contextualising the 'Chinese Model' within Ethiopian and Kenyan Paradigms of Development
… driven development since the 1970s. Unlike the Washington Consensus, the development paradigm prompted by this lesson-drawing is historically-contingent and views nation-building by a strong, visionary political leadership as the country’s single most important priority. Because it favours large …
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The development of African capital markets: a legal and institutional approach
… law and economics, law and development and the Washington Consensus approaches and explains how they have contributed to weak capital markets in developing countries.
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Political economy of port institutional and pricing reform in South Africa
… in a global economy - a model laid out in the "Washington Consensus". This model comprises a set of broad free market economic ideas which advocate macroeconomic stability, free trade, floating exchange rates and free markets to help improve economic welfare under uncertain conditions …
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Desenvolvimento socioeconômico municipal: o caso de Caaporã-PB
… and Amartya Sen, that bring a criticism of Washington Consensus, baptized the theoretical support of this study. The analytical results obtained showed that Caaporã occupied great place among the cities of Paraíba in relation to IFDM job and income and showed improvement in quality and …
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A Humanist Perspective on Economic Policy: Ecuador's Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy, 2007-2017
… broke with the policy regime of Ecuador's Washington Consensus period (1982-2006). However, in the realm of industrial policy, the government notably fell short of the speed, scale and precision required to achieve a significant change in its commodity-dependent pattern of productive …
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The role of monetary and financial reform in approaching the European Union: the case of Serbia
… position was lost due to a lack of political consensus, and the dissolution of the country in 1991. As part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) which was formed in 1992, Serbia during the 1990s went through the most devastating period in its modern (economic) history, experiencing the …
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The quest for territorial autonomy: Mapuche political identities under neoliberal multiculturalism in Argentina
… of citizenship continue to be sought by post-Washington Consensus states, however, demands for territorial autonomy and the practices of land reoccupations remind us that indigenous activism offers a legitimate alternative form of politics. This is a politics aimed at taking back what has been …
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