External Liberalization, Economic Performance and Social Policy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780195145465
Subjects: International economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Development - Economic Development; International - Economics; Public Policy - Social Policy; Business & Economics / International; Finance; International - General; Developing countries; Economic aspects; Free trade; Globalization; Social aspects
First sentence: This book reports on a fundamental economic policy shift in transition and developing economies after the mid-1980s-the replacement of traditional regimes of widespread state controls and import-substituting industrialization by packages aimed at liberalizing the balance of payments, on both current and capital accounts.