Commentary
The Bureau of Industry and Security needs to adjust its focus and practices to maintain its position as the U.S. government’s primary champion of international technological competition.
Geoffrey Irving
Report
Washington Contentious: Economic Policies for Social Equity in Latin America
Published on Mar 13, 2001
Source: Carnegie
Nancy Birdsall and Augusto de la Torre with Rachel MenezesPaperback, 96 pp.
Pub Date: March 2001
Transcript of the event
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
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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