Political And Economic Interactions In Economic Policy Reform
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Author | : Robert H. Bates |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781557863409 |
During the 1980s many developing countries undertook programs of far-reaching economic policy reform. Some have been very successful, some less so, and some have failed completely. In examining these episodes economists have focused upon the adequacy of economic policy changes but have paid little attention to their political impact. Likewise, political scientists have centered their attentions on the political reactions to reform while neglecting the economic aspects. These dissonant analyses produced a dilemma: what was good politics did not seem to be good economics and what was good economics did not seem to be good politics. From this dilemma a research project on the Political Economy of Policy Reform in Developing Countries emerged, led by Robert Bates and Anne Krueger. This volume is an analysis of the work carried out by eight research teams into policy reform in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, Korea, Turkey and Zambia. The teams each consisted of an economist and a political scientist who jointly analyzed the economic and political ingredients of their country's reform efforts. This important work will be valuable reading for scholars and policy-makers in the fields of development, international, and agricultural economics. These studies will be of compelling interest to political scientists as well, particularly those in the fields of comparative politics and development studies.
Author | : Jacob S. Hacker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316516369 |
Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.
Author | : Johan Swinnen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018-05-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1137501022 |
Winner of the European Association of Agricultural Economists Book Award Food and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and in developed countries. Today, more than half a trillion US dollars are spent by some governments to support farmers, while other governments impose regulations and taxes that hurt farmers. Some policies, such as price regulations and tariffs, distribute income but reduce total welfare by introducing economic distortions. Other policies, such as public investments in research, food standards, or land reforms, may increase total welfare, but these policies come also with distributional effects. These distributional effects influence the preferences of interest groups and in turn influence policy decisions. Political considerations are therefore crucial to understand how agricultural and food policies are determined, to identify the constraints within which welfare-enhancing reforms are possible (or not), and finally to understand how coalitions can be created to stimulate growth and reduce poverty.
Author | : M. Anne Pitcher |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2012-05-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521449626 |
Argues that the interaction of formal institutions and the quality of democracy explain patterns of private sector development across Africa.
Author | : William D. Ferguson |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1503611973 |
This book examines how a society that is trapped in stagnation might initiate and sustain economic and political development. In this context, progress requires the reform of existing arrangements, along with the complementary evolution of informal institutions. It involves enhancing state capacity, balancing broad avenues for political input, and limiting concentrated private and public power. This juggling act can only be accomplished by resolving collective-action problems (CAPs), which arise when individuals pursue interests that generate undesirable outcomes for society at large. Merging and extending key perspectives on CAPs, inequality, and development, this book constructs a flexible framework to investigate these complex issues. By probing four basic hypotheses related to knowledge production, distribution, power, and innovation, William D. Ferguson offers an analytical foundation for comparing and evaluating approaches to development policy. Navigating the theoretical terrain that lies between simplistic hierarchies of causality and idiosyncratic case studies, this book promises an analytical lens for examining the interactions between inequality and development. Scholars and researchers across economic development and political economy will find it to be a highly useful guide.
Author | : Anne O. Krueger |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781557862747 |
Author | : Susan L. Shirk |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520912217 |
In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more flexible and less centralized than their Soviet counterparts were. Shirk pioneers a rational choice institutional approach to analyze policy-making in a non-democratic authoritarian country and to explain the history of Chinese market reforms from 1979 to the present. Drawing on extensive interviews with high-level Chinese officials, she pieces together detailed histories of economic reform policy decisions and shows how the political logic of Chinese communist institutions shaped those decisions. Combining theoretical ambition with the flavor of on-the-ground policy-making in Beijing, this book is a major contribution to the study of reform in China and other communist countries. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994. In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chine
Author | : Anne O. Krueger |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226454481 |
"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 | : Douglass C. North |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1990-10-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521397346 |
An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies is developed in this analysis of economic structures.
Author | : Federico Sturzenegger |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262194006 |
In this book, Federico Sturzenegger and Mariano Tommasi propose formal models to answer some of the questions raised by the recent reform experience of many Latin American and eastern European countries.