Over the last thirty years or so the developments in the area of monetary and macroeconomic policies have been quite substantial. Within the new consensus macroeconomics (NCM), monetary policy is upgraded while fiscal policy is downgraded. This new monetary policy has been the main instrument of...

An addition to the 'International Papers in Political Economy Series', this edited work offers new developments in economic policy and theory. The experiences of privatisation and private finance initiatives are looked at in detail