 IntroductionShahrukh Rafi Khan
A chapter in Do World Bank and IMF Policies Work?, 1999, pp 1-12 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Do World Bank and IMF policies work? The idea of writing or editing a book on this topic first came to mind when I was teaching a course in development economics at Vassar College. Teaching structural adjustment (SA) as the central element of a development economics course is unavoidable, since it represents the most predominant set of economic policies confronting poor countries. Also, it can provide a logical and coherent way of structuring a course since its scope is vast and it provides an entry point to most sectoral issues and to the debate on various schools of thought in development economics, both on a broad level and on a sectoral level. The difficulty I confronted in teaching such a course was finding evidence to report. Much of the evidence was of a cross-country nature, which many scholars found unsatisfactory. Country case studies were available, but they rarely used time series data in a systematic way. Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Structural Adjustment; Structural Reform; Current Account Deficit; Real Effective Exchange Rate (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37325-9_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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