Finance and Development, September 2003.

This paper highlights that the Washington Consensus helped fill the need for an economic policy framework following the discrediting of central planning and import-substitution trade strategies. Latin American governments championed the Consensus in the early 1990s, and the policy agenda delivered s...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Series:Finance and Development; Finance and Development ; No. 0040/003
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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Summary:This paper highlights that the Washington Consensus helped fill the need for an economic policy framework following the discrediting of central planning and import-substitution trade strategies. Latin American governments championed the Consensus in the early 1990s, and the policy agenda delivered some of the things it was supposed to-healthier budgets, lower inflation, lower external debt ratios, and economic growth. But unemployment rose in many countries and poverty remained widespread, while the emphasis on market openness made states vulnerable to the side effects of globalization.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (58 pages)
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ISSN:0145-1707
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