Product Description: What political conditions are necessary for the success of economic adjustment? This publication analyzes a body of work on this question, and indicates the politically risky measures to be avoided as well as those more likely to ensure a peaceful adjustment to difficult economic measures...read more

Product Description: Preparatory studies for adjustment programs usually fail to observe that they are decided in a political context, by politicians, and are bound to have far-reaching political consequences. This book reviews the instruments available to economists and policymakers in the developing countries for analyzing the interactions between economic and politics...read more