market capitalism’ (Williamson, 1997). In the 1990s, some commentators
nd the World Bank shifting to a revised neoliberal model stressing
market-friendly state intervention and good governance (political plura-
lism, accountability and the rule of law), conditions found typical of the
East Asian ‘miracle economies’ (Kiely, 1998) The culmination of this trend
towards ‘neoliberalism with a human face’ was the 1999/2000 World
Development Report’s ‘Comprehensive Development Framework’ (CDF)
with two complementary parts: a stable macroeconomy shaped by pru- dent scal and monetary policies; and the CDF itself, stressing: honest
governments; strong property and personal rights supported by an ef- cient legal and judicial system; human development, as with education
and health; physical infrastructure; and sectoral elements like integrated
rural development strategies and urban management (World Bank, 1999). This is a new kind of reexive developmentalism that incorporates its
own critique into ever-more sophisticated, but basically unchanging, versions. Reexive neoliberalism is the main ideological force creating
the socio-spatial conditions of our time.