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States or Markets? Neo-liberalism and the development policy debate

States or Markets? Neo-liberalism and the development policy debate edited by Christopher Colclough and James Manor - New York Clarendon Press 1993 - 359p. 18cm. - IDS Development studies Series .

Contents:

List of Tables and Figure x

1. Structuralism versus Neo-liberalium: An Introduction
Christopher Colclough 1

2 Market Relaxation and Agricultural Development
Michael Lipton 26

3 Visible and Invisible Hands in Trade Policy Reform
David Evans 48

4 Neo-liberalism, Gender, and the Limits of the Market
Naila Kabeer and John Humphrey 78

5 International Financial Markets: A Case of Market Failure
Stephany Griffith-Jones 101

6 Recovery from Macro-economic Disaster in Sub-Saharan Africa
Charles Harvey 121

7 Industrialization in Botswana: How Getting the Prices Right Helped the Wrong People
Raphael Kaplinsky 148

8 Learning to Raise Infants. A Case-Study in Industrial Policy
Hubert Schmitz and Tom Hewitt 173

9 Who Should Learn to Pay? An Assessment of Neo-liberal Approaches to Education Policy
Christopher Colclough 197

10 Managing Health Sector Development: Markets and Institutional Reform
Gerald H. Bloom 214

11 Neo-liberalism and the Political Economy of War Sub-Saharan Africa as a Case-Study of a Vacuum

Reginald Herbold Green 238

12 The State and Rural Development: Ideologies and an Agenda for the 1990s

Robert Chambers 260

13 Rent-seeking and Market Surrogates. The Case of Irrigation Policy

Mick Moore 279

14 Politics and the Neo-liberals

James Manor 306

15 Is There a New Political Economy of Development?

John Toye 321

Index 339

Tables

3.1 Forty-one developing countries, classified by trade orientation 62

5.1 Net transfers of public and publicly guaranteed debt 110

6.1 Degree of government commitment to neo-liberal package 133

9.1 Public expenditure per student on education and enrolment ratios major world regions, around 1980 201

9.2 Average annual growth rates of real non-agricultural wages in developing countries, 1971-1986 206

9.3 Indices of differentials in starting salaries for university graduates compared with secondary school leavers in African public service, 1970-1988 207

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3.1 Macro-economic performance of forty-one developing economies grouped by trade orientation 61


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