The Washington Consensus as transnational policy paradigm: Its origins, trajectory and likely successor
This paper explores the origins and trajectory of the Washington Consensus - the ideas associated with the developing countries' move to free markets in the 1980s and 1990s. I argue that the Consensus was a transnational policy paradigm, shaped by both scholarly and political forces (Hall, 1993). At the core of the Consensus was the international financial institutions' practice of conditionality - making loans to governments in exchange for policy reforms. The Consensus was subsequently weakened by its own unintended consequences, by political forces both within Washington and worldwide and by intellectual changes in the field of economics. However, I argue that the Consensus has yet to encounter any serious rivals.
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2013
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Authors: | Babb, Sarah |
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Review of International Political Economy. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0969-2290. - Vol. 20.2013, 2, p. 268-297
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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