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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800054803321

Autore

Killick Tony

Titolo

Aid and the political economy of policy change / / Tony Killick with Ramani Gunatilaka and Ana Marr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-66244-0

0-429-23210-1

0-203-27219-6

1-280-05642-8

1-134-66245-9

0-203-44653-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GunatilakaRamani

MarrAna

Disciplina

338.91

Soggetti

Economic assistance

Structural adjustment (Economic policy)

Economic history - 1971-1990

Economic history - 1990-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; The practice and justification of conditionality; What has adjustment conditionality achieved?; Conditionality and adjustment in South-east Asia and Latin America; The 'ownership' problem; The model, the research, some results; Rewards, punishments and the influence of national politics; Alternatives to conditionality; Master Table  Summary results on conditionality and economic policy reforms in twenty-one developing countries, 1980  94; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume looks at the effectiveness of conditionality in structural adjustment programmes. Tony Killick charts the emergence of conditionality, and challenges the widely held assumption that it is a cooperative process.