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Macroeconomic stability in developing countries - How much is enough?

Author:	Montiel, Peter; Serven, Luis;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 3456
Country:	World;	Date Stored:	2004/12/08
Document Date:	2004/11/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	The World Region
Report Number:	WPS3456	SubTopics:	Environmental Economics & Policies; Achieving Shared Growth; Payment Systems & Infrastructure; Economic Theory & Research; Macroeconomic Management; Banks & Banking Reform; Inequality; Fiscal & Monetary Policy
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: In the 1990s macroeconomic policies improved in a majority of developing countries, but the growth dividend from such improvement fell short of expectations, and a policy agenda focused on stability turned out to be associated with a multiplicity of financial crises. The authors take a retrospective look at the content and implementation of the macroeconomic reform agenda of the 1990s. They review the progress achieved with fiscal, monetary, and exchange rate policies across the developing world, and the effectiveness of the changing policy framework in promoting stability and growth. The main lesson is that slow growth and frequent crises resulted, more often than not, from shortcomings in the reform agenda of the 1990s. These shortcomings essentially concern the depth and breadth of the macroeconomic reform agenda, its attention to macroeconomic vulnerabilities, and the complementary reforms outside the macroeconomic sphere.


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