Moreover, although these economic measures were originally designed for Latin America and the Caribbean, in the 1990s, they became the general neoliberal agenda for the countries traditionally referred to as "developing economies," as greater priority was given to financial aspects of the economy, to the detriment of the productive sectors.
Más aún, si bien originalmente esas medidas económicas estaban pensadas para los países de América Latina y el Caribe, durante la década de los noventa se convirtieron en un programa de corte neoliberal de aplicación general para las tradicionalmente llamadas "economías en desarrollo" y que suponía una valoración del eje financiero en detrimento de sectores productivos.