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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