Structural Policies In Developing Countries
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Author | : Mr.Eduardo Borensztein |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1994-09-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1451964617 |
This paper discusses the broad orientation of the economic systems adopted in developing countries. While government-led development strategies were widely followed by developing countries since the 1950s and 1960s, a distinct trend towards the adoption of market-oriented systems has developed in the last decade. The paper reviews international trade policies, noting the move away from protectionism, and financial markets policies, where financial repression is also giving way to more liberal systems. The paper also discusses newer ideas supporting “industrial policies” or policies to promote certain export activities, that are partly inspired by the success of several East Asian economies, and observes that their application to other developing countries would not be promising.
Author | : Ms.Stefania Fabrizio |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2017-01-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1475566220 |
Despite sustained economic growth and rapid poverty reductions, income inequality remains stubbornly high in many low-income developing countries. This pattern is a concern as high levels of inequality can impair the sustainability of growth and macroeconomic stability, thereby also limiting countries’ ability to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. This underscores the importance of understanding how policies aimed at boosting economic growth affect income inequality. Using empirical and modeling techniques, the note confirms that macro-structural policies aimed at raising growth payoffs in low-income developing countries can have important distributional consequences, with the impact dependent on both the design of reforms and on country-specific economic characteristics. While there is no one-size-fits-all recipe, the note explores how governments can address adverse distributional consequences of reforms by designing reform packages to make pro-growth policies also more inclusive.
Author | : Ed Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1135099529 |
Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts examines the problems associated with Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and reveals the damaging impacts they can have. The book looks at how the debt crisis of the 1970's forced developing countries to seek external help and then reviews what constitutes as a standard adjustment programme, detailing the political, economic, social and environmental impacts of SAPs. The final section draws together theories and political responses and presents a case for alternatives to the programmes.
Author | : Justin Yifu Lin |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821389572 |
This book provides an innovative framework to analyze the process of industrial upgrading and diversification, a key feature of economic development. Based on this framework, it provides concrete advice to development practitioners and policy makers on how to unleash a country's growth potential.
Author | : Justin Yifu Lin |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2012-01-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821389556 |
Economic development is a process of continuous technological innovation and structural transformation. Development thinking is inherently tied to the quest for sustainable growth strategies. This book provides a neoclassical approach for studying the determinants of economic structure and its transformation and draws new insights for development policy. The market is the basic mechanism for effective resource allocation at each level of development. However, economic development as a dynamic process entails structural changes, including industrial upgrading and diversification and corresponding improvements in hard and soft infrastructure. Such upgrading and improvements require coordination and go hand in hand with large externalities to firms' transaction costs and returns to capital investment. Thus, in addition to an effective market mechanism, the government should play an active role in facilitating structural changes. The book provides empirical evidence in support of this framework as well as concrete advice to development practitioners.
Author | : Mr.Jonathan David Ostry |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1589068181 |
This volume examines the impact on economic performance of structural policies-policies that increase the role of market forces and competition in the economy, while maintaining appropriate regulatory frameworks. The results reflect a new dataset covering reforms of domestic product markets, international trade, the domestic financial sector, and the external capital account, in 91 developed and developing countries. Among the key results of this study, the authors find that real and financial reforms (and, in particular, domestic financial liberalization, trade liberalization, and agricultural liberalization) boost income growth. However, growth effects differ significantly across alternative reform sequencing strategies: a trade-before-capital-account strategy achieves better outcomes than the reverse, or even than a "big bang"; also, liberalizing the domestic financial sector together with the external capital account is growth-enhancing, provided the economy is relatively open to international trade. Finally, relatively liberalized domestic financial sectors enhance the economy's resilience, reducing output costs from adverse terms-of-trade and interest-rate shocks; increased credit availability is one of the key mechanisms.
Author | : Anis A. Dani |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2008-04-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821370006 |
The heterogeneity of social structures and cultural identities in many developing countries, together with traditional hierarchies, rivalries, and deep-seated biases, has perpetuated inequities. Inclusive States: Social Policy and Structural Inequalities examines the role of the state and society in addressing structural inequalities and identifies a set of policy recommendations to redress them. This book defines structural inequality as a condition arising from unequal status attributed to a category of people in relation to others, a relationship perpetuated and reinforced by unequal relations in roles, functions, decision rights, and opportunities. Inclusive states are those that direct policies to address the needs of all, that respect the rights of citizens to exercise voice and influence on which services are provided and how they are delivered, and that have an interest in strengthening the social contract with their citizens. A central focus of policy remains a concern for equity, both to level the playing field to encourage social mobility and to ensure equity in the distributional effects of policy reforms and development interventions. This book highlights two key challenges for social policy. First, policy design needs to take into account the weaknesses of basic state functions in many developing countries, since these have important ramifications for social policy outcomes. Second, in most developing countries social structures marked by historically rooted structural inequalities pose significant challenges to the provision of services and require a long-term commitment to address underlying questions and problems. This book describes some of the challenges found in different contexts and some of the ways in which these challenges can be and are being addressed. This book is part of a new series, New Frontiers in Social Policy, which examines issues and approaches to extend the boundaries of social policy beyond conventional social services toward policies and institutions that improve equality of opportunity and social justice in developing countries. Other forthcoming titles in the series include Assets, Livelihoods, and Social Policy, and Institutional Pathways to Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps.
Author | : Béla Kádár |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Structural change, economic policy, trade, production, OECD countries, developing countries in the 1960s and 1970s - economic implications, industrial development, technological change, industrialization policy, institutional framework, capital flow, economic relations, CMEA, OECD, trends, industrial production, Hungary, political aspect. References, statistical tables.
Author | : Hollis Burnley Chenery |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Comparative economics |
ISBN | : |
Development policy is concerned with long-term changes in production, investment, trade, employment, and income distribution. This book developes a set of techniques for analyzing these structural changes and applies them to some of the major problems of developing countries.
Author | : Ludovico Alcorta |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 743 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0198850115 |
Here is a comprehensive edited volume that outlines the historical roots and state-of-the-art debates on the role of structural change in the process of economic development, including both orthodox and heterodox perspectives and contributions from prominent scholars in this field.