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resistance by vested interests and militancy on the part of those who stand most to benefit from reform. This book explains how …
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Between 1989 and 1993 a structural reform program was introduced in Colombia. If the reform package paled in comparison … reform front. The fact that the reform effort did not originate from a situation of 'economic crisis' makes the Colombian … introduced in order to forge the coalitions necessary to garner support for the reform agenda. The paper argues that many of the …
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This paper deals with the role of trade regimes in determining economic performance and growth in the developing countries. The policy and empirical literatures on trade orientation and economic growth are critically reviewed; it is argued that a key limitation of these works has been the...
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In this paper I discuss the effectiveness of foreign aid from a historical perspective. I show that foreign aid is a relatively new concept in economics, and I emphasize the role of exchange rate policies in the foreign aid controversies of the 1970s through 1990s. I show that in the early 1980s...
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