From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe

by Grigore Pop-Eleches

Book Overview

The wave of neoliberal economic reforms in the developing world since the 1980s has been regarded as the result of both severe economic crises and policy pressures from global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Using comparative evidence from the initiation and implementation of IMF programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe, From Economic Crisis to Reform shows that economic crises do not necessarily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691139520
• ISBN13: 9780691139524
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"