Besley, Timothy (Ed.) <br/><br/>
Development challenges in the 1990s:   leading policymakers speak from experience / 
edited by Timothy Besley and Roberto Zagha. 
 - Washington, DC:  World Bank,  2005. 
 - xi, 332 pages:  illustrations;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- Development lessons of the 1990s -- The Washington consensus as policy prescription for development -- Russia's transition experience -- Returning from the brink: Turkey's efforts at systematic change and structural reform -- Reflections and lessons from a decade of social reforms in Brazil -- Lessons for Chile's development in the 1990s -- Managing Argentina's 2002 financial crisis -- Lessons form India's economic reforms -- China's recent reforms -- Post-communist transition in comparative perspective -- Changing views and approaches to Africa's development -- Reform in hindsight: promises and illusions in Jordan -- Options and outcomes of Chile's education reforms, 1990-2000 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780821358726 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Developing countries--Economic policy.<br/>Developing countries--Politics and government.