Structural adjustment - Exploring the policy issues

Workshop proceedings

These prooceedings were released on 18 August 1999. The proceedings are from a workshop organised by the Productivity Commission which was held in Canberra on 21 May 1999.

In recognition of the importance of how policy issues relating to structural adjustment are central to the debate on the future direction of microeconomic reform, the Commission commissioned five leading policy analysts to prepare papers for the workshop. These papers form part of the workshop. It was attended by about fifty participants including academics, senior government officials, consultants, and representatives from social and business groups and the union movement.

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Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Contents, Abbreviations

PART A  INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

1  Introduction
Gary Banks

2  Overview

PART B  COMMISSIONED PAPERS

3  Distributional effects of structural change: some policy implications
Fred Argy

4  Policy issues in structural adjustment
Malcolm Gray

5  Structural change, growth and 'social justice' - an essay
Wolfgang Kasper

6  Issues in structural reform
Elizabeth Savage

7  Structural adjustment: a mainly regional development perspective
Cliff Walsh

PART C  DISCUSSANT PAPERS

8  Structural change: objectives, evaluation and incentives
Peter Forsyth

9  Evaluating policy changes: the economic and social dimensions
Glenn Withers

10  Delivering effective adjustment assistance
Peter Saunders

11  Issues in adjustment assistance
Andrew Stoeckel

PART D  APPENDICES

A  Brief for commissioned papers

B  Workshop program

C  List of participants

D  Speaker and discussant profiles