Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Politics and market reform in Latin America.
  • Setting the stage: historical legacies.
  • The international context: policy-based lending, policy dialogue, and international policy networks.
  • Market reform in Chile: from military rule to Concertación.
  • Market reform and political transition in Argentina: from military rule to Menemismo.
  • Mexico: market reform is an authoritarian liberalizing regime.
  • Managing the politics of market reform.
  • Freeing markets and facing the challenges of second-stage reform.
  • Appendix 1. Breakdown of interviews.
  • Appendix 2. Economic indicators.
  • Appendix 3. World Bank officials working on Chile, Argentina, and Mexico, 1985-1995.