Structural Reforms Without Prejudices, 9780199203628
Hardcover
What makes economic reforms a success or a failure? Why do we witness ambivalent attitudes to reforms? Can governments implement reforms differently, without inflicting prejudice to large fringes of the population? This book explores these issues by comparing reforms across a set of countries and sectors.

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  • Hardcover

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    15 June 2006

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Summary

Our economies face constant challenges from many different directions. Structural reforms are implemented every day, either to grasp the benefits of globalization and technological change, or to avoid foundering on unaffordable welfare systems or the rise of new economies.Despite this flurry of reforms, many of their effects are insufficiently understood. What makes reforms a success or a failure? Why do we witness systematically ambivalentattitudes to reforms? Can governments implement refor…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780199203628
ISBN-10:0199203628
Author:Tito Boeri, Micael Castanheira, The Late Riccardo Faini, Vincenzo Galasso
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:15 June 2006
Weight:650g
Dimensions:241mm x 165mm x 24mm
About The Author

Tito Boeri

Tito Boeri received his Ph.D. in economics from New York University and is currently Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and is Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. He has also acted as consultant to the European Commission, International Monetary Fund, the ILO, the World Bank and the Italian Government. Micael Castanheira received his Ph.D. in economics from the Free University of Brussels and is currently a research fellow of the BelgianNational Research Foundation (FNRS), and Professor of Economics at the Free University of Brussels. Riccardo Faini is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He was previouslyDirector General at the Italian Treasury and has held the post of Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund. Vincenzo Galasso obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles and is currently Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan, and Research Fellow of IGIER.

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