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The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper of Honduras and the Transformations of Neoliberalism

Pages 113-139 | Published online: 25 Mar 2019
 

Abstract

A decade into the PRSP (Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper) process, this article provides a comprehensive look at the World Bank's development approach and demonstrates that recent changes in development policy have resulted in the emergence of a more inclusively oriented neoliberal development regime. In doing so, the article traces the important “discontinuities within continuity” between structural adjustment policies (SAPs) and PRSPs, and excavates the transformative elements of the Post-Washington Consensus (PWC) and its most visible policy tool, the PRSP. In an attempt to make sense of this discontinuity within continuity, the article draws on and conceptually develops the notion of inclusive neoliberalism, and uses a case study of Honduras’ experience with the PRSP process to empirically substantiate the claims surrounding the transformations of neoliberalism. Inclusive neoliberalism arguably represents a new phase of more socially interventionist and ameliorative forms of neoliberal governance that selectively combine little-modified macroeconomic policies with more interventionist and expansive social policies to attenuate the social impacts of neoliberal reforms and prop up failing market mechanisms.

Resumen

Luego de una década de procesos de tipo DELP (Documentos de estrategia de lucha contra la pobreza), este artículo ofrece una perspectiva integral del enfoque de desarrollo del Banco Mundial y demuestra que los cambios recientes en la política de desarrollo han resultado en el surgimiento de un régimen de desarrollo neoliberal con orientación mas inclusiva. A tal efecto, se analizan las importantes “discontinuidades en la continuidad” entre las políticas de ajuste estructural y los DELP, y se examinan los elementos transformativos del Post-Consenso de Washington y de su herramienta más evidente, el DELP. Este artículo utiliza y desarrolla conceptualmente la noción de neoliberalismo inclusivo, y se sirve de la experiencia de Honduras como estudio de caso para sustentar empíricamente los argumentos en torno a la mutación del neoliberalismo. El neoliberalismo inclusivo representa una nueva fase más socialmente intervencionista que combina selectivamente políticas macroeconómicas poco modificadas con políticas sociales más intervencionistas y expansivas para atenuar los impactos sociales de las reformas neoliberales y contener las fallas de los mecanismos del mercado.

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