The present work lays down a firm conceptual and empirical basis with which to systematically investigate the relationships between social expenditure, social development and economic growth. It would be immensely useful to examine and hypothesise on the nature of casuality between these variables. -Ananya Mukherjee Reed, York University, Toronto, European Journal of Development Research, 12/1/2001
|The great value of this study... lies in the authors' conscious effort to go beyond mere macroeconomic aggregates to embed reforms in the national and international contexts in which they were implemented. The results constitute an invaluable reminder of how the reforms interacted with other variables to produce policy outcomes. -Pamela K. Starr, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Latin American Research Review, vol. 37, no. 2; 2002
|[This] book should be read by anyone wishing to understand and improve upon the dynamics of neoliberal restructuring in the Americas. -Ian Robinson, University of Michigan, Industrial Relations, 2002, v. 57 no 3