Quality is generally recognized to have three components: structure, process, and outcomes. The American Burn Association (ABA) has a long history of trying to improve quality of care for patients with burn injuries. Since its establishment by Dr. Irving Feller in the 1970s,1 the National Burn Information Exchange, a nascent database relying on punch cards submitted by participating burn center...

I would like to discuss improvements in our understanding of economic development, in particular the emergence of what is sometimes called the "post-Washington consensus." My remarks elaborate on two themes. The first is that we have come to a better understanding of what makes markets work well. The Washington consensus held that good economic performance required liberalized trade, macroecono...

In an address to the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) in Helsinki at the beginning of this year, I argued that we needed to go beyond the Washington consensus: there were broader objectives to development than were embodied in that consensus, the set of policy recommendations upon which it focused was certainly not sufficient for development, and indeed some of the mos...

This study takes the limits and failures of policy reforms based on the so-called Washington Consensus as a starting point and argues that effective and feasible economic reforms need a politico-institutional foundation. Since failures in policy reform, poor public management, and rent seeking are interpreted as instances of institutional failure, effective governance structures are required, w...

This paper analyzes the structural change and performance of the Nepalese economy over the period of 1965 to 2009, specially focusing on the impact of IMF and World Bank's structural adjustment program implemented since the mid-1980s based on the Washington consensus. The performance of Nepalese economy has not improved much after the implementation of a series of structural adjustment programs...