Beyond Reforms - (Latin American Development Forum) by José Antonio Ocampo (Hardcover)

About the Book

This collection presents the difficult challenges of the new economic era as well as a set of alternative economic policies to manage the open Latin American economies of the early twenty- first century.

Book Synopsis

This collection presents the difficult challenges of the new economic era as well as a set of alternative economic policies to manage the open Latin American economies of the early twenty- first century.

From the Back Cover

"Beyond Reforms constitutes an important and timely step towards a new post-Washington Consensus paradigm for economic and social policy in Latin America. It brings to bear the thinking of an impressive group of authors on the current policy context of the region, in the form of insightful treatments of macrodynamics, external debt, fiscal policy, technological gaps, de-industrialization, and poverty, together with attention to the interaction among these variables and policy dimensions. It is thought-provoking, sometimes surprising, and always educational." --Albert Berry, Research Director, Programme on Latin America and the Caribbean, Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

Review Quotes

"Beyond Reforms offers a wide-ranging, ambitious introduction to this revival [of traditional structuralist theorizing], which goes back to older ideas about structural heterogeneity, profound social inequity, and other stubborn hindrances to socioeconomic progress, both at the domestic and the global level."--Latin American Research Review

About the Author

José Antonio Ocampo is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Economic and Social Affairs, and former Executive Secretary of ECLAC.