Development and Civil Society in Latin America and Asia

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ID9749326
AuthorsWilliam Ratliff (0000-0003-4015-3805, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume565
Issue1
Pages91-112
Publication date1999-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000271629956500106
OpenAlexW2109866823
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

Market reforms began in parts of Asia after World War II and led to macroeconomic policies and governance that brought rapid and fairly evenly shared growth, with an emphasis on promoting capable civil services, community involvement, and good basic education and health. For historical and cultural reasons, reforms began decades later in most of Latin America. To bypass ossified bureaucracies, operating under largely democratic governments with elements of civil societies, Latin American reforms were under strongmen, or caudillos, who undertook macroeconomic reforms due to conviction or expediency or both. The leaders used teams of technocrats who operated alongside and above preexisting bureaucracies. Reforms began first and went furthest in Chile. After case studies of Chile, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, and Venezuela, the author concludes that Latin American reforms will not really serve their people or be secure until, like the Asian reforms, they stress competent and honest governance, shared growth, and basic education and health

Bureaucracy · Civil society · Corporate governance · Democracy · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Latin Americans · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Technocracy · Economic Theory and Policy · International Development and Aid · Law · Public Administration

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