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Can orthodox stabilization and adjustment work? Lessons from New Zealand, 1984–90

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Herman Schwartz
Herman Schwartz
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Assistant Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
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Abstract

Most debate about the efficacy of orthodox stabilization programs, such as those of the International Monetary Fund, has been fruitless. First, rarely are these programs fully implemented or sustained for long periods. Second, defenders and critics of the programs hold differing premises about the nature of capitalist economies. The debate is therefore not about the appropriate balance of supply-and demand-side measures but, rather, about what sort of supply- and demand-side measures will address the supply- and demand-side problems that each group perceives. The results of an orthodox stabilization program which incorporated demand- and supply-side elements and which was fully implemented and sustained by the New Zealand government from 1984 to 1990 reveal the limits to orthodox programs. New Zealand, a primary product exporter, suffers from a structural imbalance of payments and from an external debt burden equal in scale to that of the Latin American and other highly indebted less developed countries (LDCs), but it does not have the serious supplyside constraints on growth that critics claim typify underdeveloped economies. This makes New Zealand an appropriate test of the typical orthodox stabilization program. Despite the fact that its administrative capacity, political will, domestic support, and access to external resources were far in excess of those of the typical would-be LDC stabilizer, New Zealand achieved only a precarious macroeconomic and international payments stability. Moreover, as the case of New Zealand demonstrates, inflation control and financial liberalization policy components of orthodox plans have contradictory consequences for payments balance. This suggests that long-term stabilization, in New Zealand and elsewhere, cannot be achieved solely by internal reforms.

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International Organization , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , Spring 1991 , pp. 221 - 256
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I thank Richard Bensel, John Echeverri-Gent, Stephan Haggard, Louis Pauly, Elizabeth Sanders, and two reviewers for comments and criticism. I am also indebted to a large number of people interviewed in New Zealand regarding stabilization and other issues. Earlier versions of this article were presented at the Center for Study of Social Change at the New School for Social Research and also at the 1989 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. The research was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The usual disclaimers apply.

1. Since most orthodox programs take place under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), most of the literature evaluated in my article concerns the IMF. However, as I emphasize in the article, the IMF had no role in New Zealand's stabilization and adjustment program. On the subject of program success, even the IMF acknowledges that differing degrees of implementation make objective evaluations of program outcomes a problematic enterprise; see Khan, Mohsin, “The Macroeconomic Effects of Fund-Supported Adjustment Programs: An Empirical Assessment,” IMF Research Department working paper no. 88/113, Washington, D.C., 1988, p. 12Google Scholar. For the best summary of empirical studies through 1983, see Killick, Tony et al. , Quest for Economic Stabilization (London: Overseas Development Institute, 1984)Google Scholar, chaps. 2,3,4, and 7. For various case studies, see Killick, Tony et al. , The IMF and Stabilization: Developing Country Experiences (London: Overseas Development Institute, 1984)Google Scholar. For a sum-mary of contentious issues, see Cline, William, “Economic Stabilization in Developing Countries: Theory and Stylized Facts,” in Williamson, John, ed., IMF Conditionality (Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1983), pp. 175–208Google Scholar. For summaries of more recent studies, especially on the question of income distribution and growth, see Pastor, Manuel, “The Effects of IMF Programs in the Third World: Debate and Evidence from Latin America,” World Development 15 (02 1987), pp. 249–62CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Khan, “The Macroeconomic Effects of Fund-Supported Adjustment Programs.” For a discussion of implementation failure, see Haggard, Stephan, “Politics of Economic Adjustment: Lessons from the IMF's Extended Fund Facility,” in Kahler, Miles, ed., Politics of International Debt (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985), pp. 157–86Google Scholar.

2. In a crucial case, all of the independent and intervening variables that a theory posits are both present and acting in the manner that the theory presumes. Dependent variables thus should behave as the theory posits; if they do not, the theory or its assumptions are questionable. See Eckstein, Harry, “Case Study and Theory in Political Science,” in Greenstein, F. I. and Polsby, N. W., eds., Handbook of Political Science, vol. 7 (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1975), pp. 79–137Google Scholar.

3. Obviously, not all critics and defenders hold all of the assumptions that characterize the contrary models drawn here. Contrary to the usual view, however, here I do not argue that a range of opinion tends to run along a continuum stretching between the critics and defenders.

4. See Killick et al., Quest for Economic Stabilization.

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68. The possible exceptions might be Argentina and Uruguay at the end of the 1970s, when a similar neo-orthodox stabilization program caused wealth effects which in combination with overvalued exchange rates led to a destabilization of import levels.

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