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Review of: Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America: The Costa Rican Experience
Perspectives on Politics, Vol.1(1), pp.204-205
03/01/2003
Abstract
The central proposition advanced in this book is that incremental reform along neoliberal lines works. In Costa Rica, a slow-paced program of macroeconomic stabilization, fiscal cutbacks, economic deregulation, tax incentives for exporters, cessation of agricultural subsidies, and selected privatizations yielded “generally positive results” (p. 105). The economy recovered rapidly from the 1980s crisis and poverty rates fell back to pre-crisis levels, while the country's democratic stability was never in danger.
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- Title
- Review of: Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America: The Costa Rican Experience
- Publication Details
- Perspectives on Politics, Vol.1(1), pp.204-205
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright
- © 2003 by the American Political Science Association
- Identifiers
- 99380171992006600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Reubin O'D. Askew Department of Government
- Language
- English