Pop-Eleches From Economic Crisis to Reform

IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3554-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

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 persuade governments to adopt IMF-style economic policies. Instead, ideology, interests, and institutions, at both the international and domestic levels, mediate responses to such crises.

Grigore Pop-Eleches explains that the IMF's response to economic crises reflects the changing priorities of large IMF member countries. He argues that the IMF gives greater attention and favorable treatment to economic crises when they occur in economically or politically important countries. The book also shows how during the neoliberal consensus of the 1990s, economic crises triggered IMF-style reforms from governments across the ideological spectrum and how these reforms were broadly compatible with democratic politics. By contrast, during the Latin American debt crisis, the contentious politics of IMF programs reflected the ideological rivalries of the Cold War. Economic crises triggered ideologically divergent domestic policy responses and democracy was often at odds with economic adjustment. The author demonstrates that an economic crisis triggers neoliberal economic reforms only when the government and the IMF agree about the roots and severity of the crisis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pop-Eleches, Grigore

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables ix

List of Abbreviations xiii

Preface xv

Chapter 1: Introduction 1

Chapter 2: A Theoretical Approach to IMF Program 27

Initiation and Implementation

Appendix to Chapter 2--Statistical Indicators and Methods 53

Chapter 3: Changing Crisis "Recipes": The International Drivers of IMF Programs 66

Chapter 4: Navigating External Crises: Case Study Evidence 105

Chapter 5: Domestic Political Responses to Economic Crises 135

Chapter 6: Domestic Crisis Politics: Case Study Evidence 174

Chapter 7: The Great Reconciliation?--Latin America and the IMF in the 1990s 238

Chapter 8: Theoretical Conclusions and Policy Implications 284

Appendix--A Formal Model of IMF Program Initiation and Implementation 307

Bibliography 323

Index 335

Über Autor(innen)

Grigore Pop-Eleches is assistant professor of politics and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Politics at Princeton University.