Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America
Author: Mary A. Clark
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2001-07-19
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780791450314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In-depth case study of Costa Rican economic reform efforts.
Author: Mary A. Clark
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2001-07-19
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780791450314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In-depth case study of Costa Rican economic reform efforts.
Author: Harry Ivan Costin
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A first of its kind to hit the market, this text provides an overview of recent political, economic and business developments in Latin America. Written by leading economists and scholars in the field, it gives a current, comprehensive introduction to the problems and issues involved in Latin America's recent economic reform processes, an understanding essential to international business students, business people eyeing Latin American markets, as well as professionals, scholars, and students interested in the area. The text is appropriate for graduate and undergraduate courses offering a primary or secondary focus on recent developments in Latin America.
Author: Eduardo Lora
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2006-10-23
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 0821365762
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a. political institutions and the state organization; b. fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c. public institutions in charge of sectoral economic policies (financial, industrial, and infrastructure); and d. social sector institutions (pensions, social protection, and education). In each of these areas, the authors summarize the reform objectives, describe and measure their scope, assess the main outcomes, and identify the obstacles for implementation, especially those of an institutional nature.
Author: Graciela Moguillansky
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covers the period from the 1970s to 1998.
Author: Mary A. Clark
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2001-07-19
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0791490327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America questions why most Latin American countries have not nearly completed neoliberal economic reforms. Examining Costa Rica as an important example of the gradual, as opposed to radical, approach, Mary A. Clark utilizes over one hundred fifty interviews as well as secondary data to present ten mini-case studies of structural adjustment in the 1980s and 1990s. In analyzing the economic, social, and political outcomes of Costa Rica's experience, Clark concludes the gradual approach has yielded positive results, and compares this country's experiences with that of other Latin American welfare states.
Author: Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003-03-26
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0881324515
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume is a successor of sorts to the Institute's 1986 volume Toward Renewed Economic Growth in Latin America, which blazed the trail for the market-oriented economic reforms that were adopted in Latin America in the subsequent years. It again presents the work of a group of leading Latin American economists who were asked to think about the nature of the economic policy agenda that the region should be pursuing after a decade that was punctuated by crises, achieved disappointingly slow growth, and saw no improvement in the region's highly skewed income distribution. The study diagnoses the first-generation (liberalizing and stabilizing) reforms that are still lacking, the complementary second-generation (institutional) reforms that are necessary to provide the institutional infrastructure of a market economy with an egalitarian bias, and the new initiatives that are needed to crisis-proof the economies of the region to end its perpetual series of crises. Contributors: Daniel Artana, Nancy Birdsall, Roberto Bouzas, Saúl Keifman, Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski, Ricardo López Murphy, Claudio de Moura Castro, Fernando Navajas, Patricio Navia, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Jaime Saavedra, Miguel Székely, Andrés Velasco, John Williamson, and Laurence Wolff.
Author: Sebastian Edwards
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780195211054
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work provides a thorough analytical review of the processes that led to the transformation of many Latin American economies during the last decade. The author examines every aspect of adjustment and reform since 1980 and suggests alternative ways to consolidate the achievements.
Author: William C. Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyses processes of democratization and economic reform in five Latin American countries from the early 1980s to 1993.
Author: Norman Loayza
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cesar Rodriguez
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-09-20
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 3110674998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While Latin America accounts for approximately 7 percent of the world economy, easily accessible information on the economies of the region is not always easy to find. The existing literature on Latin American economics usually assumes some previous familiarity with the region and is focused on government policy choices. The Economies of Latin America is a book for the general reader needing a quick introduction to the economics of the region. The book is composed of three parts: the first explains Latin America’s economic history and a description of the central economic challenges of the region. The second offers country-specific details. The final part deals with the economic future of the region where the authors put forth a Latin American version of success. This book is a useful, in-depth introduction for students of Latin American economics as well as the general reader.