What’s the Big Idea? The Third Generation of Policies for Economic Growth

David L. Lindauer () and Lant Pritchett

Economía Journal, 2002, vol. Volume 3 Number 1, issue Fall 2002, 1-40

Abstract: "Economists and reform minded policymakers in Latin America are asking themselves, and are being asked, hard questions these days. The broad consensus is that two decades of reform have had too little toshow for it. Sporadic and sputtering economic growth and stagnant real wages (especially for the unskilled) is not what was expected. This paper puts the Latin American experience in the global context and examines the processes that brought the region to this point. We look at the trends in policy advice on economic growth and how they were formed, and we address the question of what economists can do now to help the region move in restoring economic growth."

Keywords: trends in policy advice; Latin America; history of policy advice; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B20 D78 N46 O20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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