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Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus |
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Contributed by Lea Ayoub
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This anthology offers a critical political economy of the World Bank's
development agenda, as found in the Washington consensus and in the
post-Washington consensus. First, it disentangles the empirical and
theoretical flaws of the neoliberal economics of the Washington
consensus. It then exposes the way the focus on institutions and 'good
governance' of the post-Washington consensus is, in many ways, an
extension of the assumptions and analysis of the Washington consensus
into the realm of politics and social theory.
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