Paper Tigers and Minotaurs

by Naim, Moises

• ISBN13: 9780870030260
• ISBN10: 0870030264
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-09-01
• Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for Intl Peace

Summary

Political and economic reform is at the top of national agendas around the world. This book based on Moises Naim's participation in the Venezuelan reform experience and as executive director at the World Bank raises questions and explores problems crucial to achieving national reform strategies. Naim's lucid analysis grapples with the problems of dealing with entrenched interests bent on derailing reform; allaying the corrosive effects of corruption and public outcry over inequitable burdens; coping with the political instability brought on by decimated public institutions; managing the impact of reforms on the military establishment; and mobilizing public support for measures as essential as they are painful. The heady days of revolution are gone and these and other dilemmas now confront besieged reform governments everywhere. The problem of managing these in the real world is the subject this book tackles.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Foreword
Introduction	p. 1
Paradoxes of Economic Reform	p. 9
A Reversed-Midas Touch: Venezuela's Recent Economic Evolution	p. 19
Teetering on the Brink of Collapse: 1989	p. 31
El Gran Viraje: The Great Turnaround	p. 45
The Consequences of Turning the Economy Around	p. 59
The Coups and Their Political Aftermath	p. 99
Some Explanations	p. 115
Conclusions: The Politics of Managing Economic Change	p. 139
Appendixes	p. 155
Acknowledgments	p. 159
Notes	p. 161
References	p. 167
Index	p. 173
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