Reforming the Reforms: Why and How PART 1: FROM FINANCIERISTIC TO REAL MACROECONOMICS Macroeconomic Policies for Development Growth, Productive Investment and the Macroeconomic Environment PART 2: TRADE FOR DEVELOPMENT Trade Liberalization Strategies and Growth Export Dynamism in Latin America: Why it has Been Insufficient for GDP Dynamism? PART 3: FINANCIAL REFORMS FOR DEVELOPMENT Taming Financial Shocks: How to Manage Boom and Bust The Latin American and Asian Financial Crises: Contagion of Causes and Costs Policy Lessons for this Decade PART 4: A CASE OF REAL MACROECONOMICS A Macroeconomics-for-Growth in the Democratic Transition in Chile

RICARDO FFRENCH-DAVIS is Principal Advisor of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Professor of Economics at the University of Chile; Co-Directs with Joseph Stiglitz and Deepak Nayyar the ‘Macroeconomic Task Force’ of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (University of Columbia) launched by Joseph Stiglitz. Ffrench-Davis was Chief Economist of the Central bank of Chile and Director of the Centre for Economic Research on Latin America (CIEPLAN). He has published 19 books and some 120 technical articles.

Ricardo Ffrench-Davis was awarded the Chilean National Prize of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2005.