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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808290303321

Autore

Taylor Lance

Titolo

External Liberalization, Economic Performance and Social Policy [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-282-26798-1

9786612267987

0-19-803326-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (519 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TaylorLance <1940->

Disciplina

337

Soggetti

Free enterprise -- Asia

Free enterprise -- Brazil

Free enterprise -- Europe, Eastern

Free trade -- Asia

Free trade -- Brazil

Free trade -- Europe, Eastern

International finance

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Editor and Contributors; 1. External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe, and Brazil; 2. Belindia Goes to Washington: The Brazilian Economy after the Reforms; 3. External Liberalization, Growth, and Distribution in China; 4. Opening Up the Hungarian Economy: Conditions and Consequences of Liberalizing Trade and Capital Flows in Hungary; 5. A Decade of Reforms: The Indian Economy in the 1990's; 6. Indonesia's External Liberalization: Policy Dynamics and Socio-Economic Impact; 7. The Long and Winding Road to Liberalization: The South Korean Experience

8. External Liberalization, Economic Performance, and Distribution in Malaysia 9. External Liberalization, Growth, and Distribution in the Philippines; 10. External Liberalization, Growth, and Distribution: The Polish Experience; 11. The Russian Way of Adjustment: Mechanisms of Economic Growth in 1999-2001 and Patterns of Poverty and Income Distribution; 12. External Liberalization and Economic Growth: The



Case of Singapore; 13. The Distributive and Macroeconomic Impact of Liberalization in Thailand

14. Turkey, 1980-2000: Financial Liberalization, Macroeconomic (In)Stability, and Patterns of Distribution15. Vietnam: External Liberalization, Structural Change, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This text reports on a policy shift in transition and developing countries after the mid-1980's. Looking at the experiences of nine countries and the negative effects that liberalization has had on them, the book includes policy recommendations for problems and challenges posed by globalization.