A staple of the “Washington Consensus” that emerged in the 1980s was that “private industry is managed more efficiently than state enterprises,” because the threat of bankruptcy keeps ...

Does anyone remember the Washington Consensus? Such a phrase might seem odd in today’s world but in the early 1990’s the notion of a Washington Consensus was very powerful as a method for ...

The Buenos Aires meeting pretends to overshadow the "Washington Consensus" prevalent in the nineties and which is blamed in most of Latinamerica for the region's economic and social shortcomings.

For roughly a quarter century after the Cold War, the Washington consensus or neoliberalism guided US foreign economic policymaking. Today, that market-oriented consensus is in tatters, as Republicans ...