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Structural Adjustment and Sustainable Development

Working Paper #47

Ramon Lopez

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This paper provides empirical evidence showing that the crowding out phenomenon is indeed relevant for most developing countries and evidence suggesting that under investment in public goods is in many countries a major distortion that at least in part explains the triple curse affecting the vast majority of the developing countries over recent decades: slow growth, massive social inequities and poverty, and environmental destruction.

About the Author

Ramon Lopez
Professor of Economics
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of Maryland at College Park

Ramón López is Professor of Economics at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland at College Park.

Publication Information

Type Working Paper
Program Environmental Economics
Posted 10/10/03
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