Explore the rise (and fall?) of the Washington Consensus in Latin America.

Select one of the following topics and write an essay of approximately five pages, typed and double-spaced. Please create a heading or cover sheet making clear which question number you have selected. A hardcopy is due in class May 5, 2016. In addition, you must submit your paper electronically to Turnitin.com for plagiarism detection. I will provide instructions. These are broad questions. You must narrow your focus, organize your thoughts, structure your argument, and determine which class resources to use for support. Take whatever approach best allows a thoughtful demonstration of your familiarity with class readings and topics. You may use supplementary outside materials if you wish, but it is not expected; you should be able to address these questions thoroughly with course materials. Use standard academic prose. Discuss the ideas of several authors, making explicit, formal references to readings and course materials (e.g., author-date referencing, endnotes, or footnotes). Your bibliography is not counted in the page limit. Evaluation is as follows: Content (20 points), Organization (20 points), Writing (10 points), and References (10 points), for a total of 60 points. –Discuss key internal and external factors that propelled the restructuring of Latin American economies in the 1980s and 1990s, and develop a critique of neoliberal economic development policies that explains their popular rejection in much of the region.