This paper analyses two efforts of the Mexican Federal Government to implement a tax
reform. The first was made by the Echeverría administration (1970–6). The second is …

The previous chapter laid out a series of challenges to the rational actor model that has
been widely used to analyse aid negotiations. It argued that the strategies recipients adopt …

This article explores the causes of differing post-communist regime transitions in Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union, emphasizing the increasingly prominent thesis that …

Why do some governments subsidize gasoline consumption, despite its very high economic
and environmental costs? We answer this question by examining how a state's political …

This article looks at the ways in which marketisation reforms affect the empowerment,
ideological universes and functioning limits of popular institutions. Under what …

Prospects for political change figure prominently on the research agenda in sub-Saharan
Africa, and in current debates within individual countries. Democracy is advocated not only …

In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many
countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play …

The book concentrates on official aid projects which are designed to benefit the poorest,
examining why most of these projects do not achieve their aims and looking at projects that …

The creation of stable democracies requires a resolution of both political and class
problems. The political task involves the development of appropriate institutions so that …

International assistance organizations use foreign aid to encourage governments in
developing countries to enact market reform and privatization policies aimed at accelerating …