Includes bibliographical references and index.

Background - assessing initial conditions: physical conditions ; human capital ; economic performance ; social development - overall political-economic structure -- The crisis - diagnosis and prescriptions: explaining the crisis ; prescriptions -- The adjustment experience: results ; governance and state capacity ; the nature of success ; extent of reform and degree of compliance -- Widening the road ahead.: broadening the fundamentals ; financing industrialization ; agrarian revolution and reforms ; mobilization of resources ; reducing the debt ; regional integration ; sociopolitical fundamentals ; developmental states, once again ; conclusions.