Occasional Papers

Reinvigorating Growth in Developing Countries: Lessons from Adjustment Policies in Eight Economies

By Kalpana Kochhar, Erik Offerdal, Louis Dicks-Mireaux, Mauro Mecagni, Jianping Zhou, Balázs Horváth, David John Goldsbrough, Sharmini Coorey

August 13, 1996

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Kalpana Kochhar, Erik Offerdal, Louis Dicks-Mireaux, Mauro Mecagni, Jianping Zhou, Balázs Horváth, David John Goldsbrough, and Sharmini Coorey. Reinvigorating Growth in Developing Countries: Lessons from Adjustment Policies in Eight Economies, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1996) accessed October 15, 2024

Summary

This study examines the links between adjustment policies and growth in a small group of developing countries- Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, India, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, and Thailand - during 1970 -93. It provides an overview of the adjustment and growth experience, examines in depth several policy issues of particular interest, and distills the principal policy lessons for the design of adjustment policies.

Subject: Labor, Labor markets, Macrostructural analysis, National accounts, Private investment, Real wages, Structural reforms, Tariffs, Taxes

Keywords: Adjustment policy, Country, Global, Growth differentials vis-a-vis, Investment, Investment decline, Labor markets, Middle East, OP, Policy, Private investment, Rate, Real wage flexibility, Real wages, Saving decline, Structural reforms, Tariffs, Terms of trade movement, Wage

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    93

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Series:

    Occasional Paper No. 1996/005

  • Stock No:

    S139EA0000000

  • ISBN:

    9781557755599

  • ISSN:

    0251-6365