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Author Broad, Robin.

Title Unequal alliance : the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Philippines / Robin Broad.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1988]
©1988

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 352 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in international political economy ; 19
Studies in international political economy ; 19.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-337) and index.
Contents Preface / Robin Broad, John Cavanagh -- Philippine Setting -- Newest International Division of Labor -- General Analytical Framework -- Philippine Transformation -- New Departures -- Searching for a Role: The Early Years -- Origins -- Formative Fifties -- IMF Takes the Lead -- Maturation: Bank and Fund Centerstage -- International Political Configuration -- Shifting International Division of Labor -- New Bank and Fund Roles -- State Role -- Negotiating Adjustment: The Industrial Sector -- A Faltering Facility -- An Escalating World Bank Presence -- SAL: The Consensus -- Technocrats: Transnationalist Allies -- Adjustment in Action -- Tariff Reform -- Lifting the Import Restrictions -- De Facto Devaluation -- Export Promotion -- IMF's Hidden Role -- Slicing the Economic Pie -- National Entrepreneurs -- Industrial Wage-Earners -- Industrialization and the Financial Sector -- Fathering Domestic Legislation -- Opening the Floodgates -- "What It Means to Be a Guinea Pig" -- Seeding the Central Bank -- Beyond the Apex Loan -- Reshaping the Philippines' Political Economy -- "Separating the Men from the Boys" -- "Bring in a Foreign Partner" -- Triple Alliance -- Export-Oriented Industrialization: An Assessment -- Stagnation on Global Markets -- A Modern Enclave -- Overall Performance -- Things Fall Apart: The Rise of Debt, the Fall of Marcos, and the Opportunity for Change / Robin Broad, John Cavanagh -- Slide Continues -- Glory Days? -- From Bad to Worse: The Philippines, 1983-1986.
Summary In this seminal work, U.S. development specialist Robin Broad chronicles the Philippine experiment with the structural adjustment model of development espoused by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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Subject World Bank -- Philippines.
World Bank.
Philippines.
International Monetary Fund -- Philippines.
Banque mondiale -- Philippines.
International Monetary Fund.
Fonds monétaire international -- Philippines.
Weltbank.
Internationaler Währungsfonds.
Philippines -- Economic policy.
Economic policy.
Filipinas (Islas) -- Política económica.
Indexed Term Economic conditions Role of Banks
Philippines
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Broad, Robin. Unequal alliance. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1988 0520059050 (DLC) 87010745 (OCoLC)15549981
ISBN 9780520909977 (electronic book)
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