Contents -- Preface. -- Editor Biographies -- Acknowledgments. -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Synthesis -- Part I Preserving Stability with Fiscal Discipline and Accelerating Growth with Competitiveness -- 1. Maintaining Stability with Fiscal Discipline and Competitiveness -- 2. Tax Policy and Administration -- 3. Debt Administration and Sustainability. -- 4. The Banking System. -- 5. Petroleum Policy. -- 6. Trade Policy and Competition -- 7. Basic Infrastructure: Water and Sanitation, Electricity, Telecommunications, and Transport. -- 8. Urban Development -- Part II Boosting Sustainable and Equitable Social Development -- 9. Education -- 10. Health. -- 11. The Social Assistance System -- 12. The Pension System -- 13. Rural Development -- 14. The Environment and Sustainable Development -- Part III Building a Quality Government That Serves All Ecuadorans and Fights against Corruption -- 15. The Environment and Governance and Corruption. -- 16. The Labor Market and Civil Service in Ecuador -- 17. Decentralization -- 18. The Administration of Justice -- Bibliography.