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Consolidating Economic Governance in Latin America

Author: Alejandro Angel

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-01-02

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 3030645223

This book explains how Latin American countries consolidate economic governance after serious disruptions to their formal and informal policy making routines. It asserts that the process of institutional change that started as a result of such disruptions resulted in complementary institutions, which supported a new consolidated pattern of economic governance. In addition, this work also offers a robust theoretical underpinning to economic governance, independent from performance. Performance figures prominently as a criterion to assess economic governance; however, crises are becoming more frequent and performance does not entirely depend on governments’ actions. This book argues that governance in the economic arena depends on the ability and feasibility of limiting the discretion of vested interests over economic policies insofar as these interests can shift the costs of their actions so the rest of the society bears them.

Government at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2020-03-18

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9264455469

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This third edition of Government at a Glance Latin America and the Caribbean provides the latest available evidence on public administrations and their performance in the LAC region and compares it to OECD countries. This publication includes indicators on public finances and economics, public employment, centres of government, regulatory governance, open government data, public sector integrity, public procurement and for the first time core government results (e.g. trust, inequality reduction).

A New Action-based Dataset of Fiscal Consolidation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author: Mr.Antonio David

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2018-04-26

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1484353056

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This paper presents a new database of fiscal consolidations for 14 Latin American and Caribbean economies during 1989-2016. We focus on discretionary changes in taxes and government spending primarily motivated by a desire to reduce the budget deficit and long-term fiscal health and not by a response to prospective economic conditions. To identify the motivation and budgetary impact of the fiscal policy changes, we examine contemporaneous policy documents, including Budgets, central bank reports, and IMF and OECD reports. The resulting series can be used to estimate the macroeconomic effects of fiscal consolidation for these economies

The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics

Author: José Antonio Ocampo

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-07-28

Total Pages: 959

ISBN-13: 019957104X

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A comprehensive overview of the key factors affecting the development of Latin American economies that examines long-term growth performance, macroeconomic issues, Latin American economies in the global context, technological and agricultural policies, and the evolution of labour markets, the education sector, and social security programmes.

The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Latin America

Author: Mr.Yan Carriere-Swallow

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2018-06-13

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 1484364112

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We estimate the short-term effects of fiscal consolidation on economic activity in 14 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. We examine contemporaneous policy documents to identify changes in fiscal policy motivated by a desire to reduce the budget deficit and not by responding to prospective economic conditions. Based on this narrative dataset, our estimates suggest that fiscal consolidation has contractionary effects on GDP, consistent with a multiplier of 0.9. We find these effects to be close to those in OECD countries based on a similarly constructed dataset (Devries and others, 2011). We also find similar estimation results for the two groups of economies for the effect of fiscal consolidation on the external current account balance, providing support for the twin deficits hypothesis.

Corporate Governance of Company Groups in Latin America

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2015-09-18

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9264241728

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This report provides an overview of the challenges associated with corporate governance of company groups. Country-specific chapters look at Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe

Author: John Higley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780521424226

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A distinguished group of scholars examine recent transitions to democracy and the prospects for democratic stability in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay. They also assess the role of elites in the longer-established democratic regimes in Columbia, Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. The authors conclude that in independent states with long records of political instability and authoritarian rule, democratic consolidation requires the achievement of elite 'consensual unity' - that is, agreement among all politically important elites on the worth of existing democratic institutions and respect for democratic rules-of-the-game, coupled with increased 'structural integration' among those elites. Two processes by which consensual unity can be established are explored - elite settlement, the negotiating of compromises on basic disagreements, and elite convergence, a more subtle series of tactical decisions by rival elites which have cumulative effect, over perhaps a generation.

A Territorial Perspective

Author: Guillermo Acuña

Publisher: United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13:

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Territorial development in Latin America and the Caribbean is a process that calls for consensus-building and innovation in the fields of planning and land management. This publication points out that the potential spatial synergies of this highly urbanized continent can be used to convert its rich diversity into a resource that can help promote the future progress of its cities and territories. The study takes a multidimensional approach to the analysis of a variety of issues relating to the region's human settlements, including the urbanization process, social integration, economic progress, environmental sustainability and the building of citizenship.

Economic Development of Latin America

Author: Celso Furtado

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780521290708

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"This is an introductory survey of the history and recent development of Latin American economy and society from colonial times to the establishment of the military regime in Chile. In the second edition the historical perspective has been enlarged and important events since the Cuban Revolution, such as the agrarian reforms of Peru and Chile, the difficulties of the Central America Common Market and LAFTA, the acceleration of industrialisation in Brazil and the consolidation of the Cuban economy, are discussed. The statistical information has been extended to the early 1970s and the demographic data to 1975"--Back cover.

The Economic Development of Latin America in the Twentieth Century

Author: André A. Hofman

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Hofman, a researcher with the Chile-based Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, uses growth accounting methods and previously unavailable long-term series data to assess the economic performance of the region during the century from a comparative and historical perspective. In particular he compares Latin American economies to those of advanced capitalist economies, to newly industrialized economies, and to Spain and Portugal because of the historical ties. He looks at the reasons for the poor or negative growth during the 1980s and the apparent recovery in the 1990s and at such problems as debt, income inequality, high inflation, cyclical instability, and political and policy instability. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR