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Washington Contentious: Economic Policies for Social Equity in Latin America

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By Nancy Birdsall and Rachel Menezes
Published on Mar 13, 2001

Source: Carnegie

Nancy Birdsall and Augusto de la Torre with Rachel Menezes
Paperback, 96 pp.
Pub Date: March 2001

Press Release
Table of Contents
Full Text (PDF format)
Full Text in Spanish (PDF format)
10+1: A Policy Toolkit for Equity with Efficiency (PDF format)
Commission Members (PDF format)
Summary in Spanish (PDF format)
Summary in Portuguese (PDF format)

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The Washington Consensus , which focused on structural adjustment and growth, has dominated economic policy change for over a decade worldwide. But times have changed. A new consensus has emerged that assigns high priority to reducing poverty and improving equity. This report sets out economic policies—10 domestic and one international—that would transform this consensus into political reality in Latin America.

Washington Contentious: Economic Policies for Social Equity in Latin America spells out the findings of the Commission on Economic Reform in Unequal Latin American Societies sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Inter-American Dialogue

About the Authors

Nancy Birdsall

Former Senior Associate

Rachel Menezes

Authors

Nancy Birdsall
Former Senior Associate
Rachel Menezes
North AmericaTrade

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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