Gradual Economic Reform In Latin America

Author : Mary A. Clark
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791490327
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America written by Mary A. Clark and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Harry Ivan Costin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Reform in Latin America written by Harry Ivan Costin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jorge M. Katz
Publisher : United Nations Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structural Reforms, Productivity and Technological Change in Latin America written by Jorge M. Katz and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last ten to fifteen years, profound structural reforms have moved Latin America and the Caribbean from closed, state-dominated economies to ones that are more market-oriented and open. Policymakers expected that these changes would speed up growth. This book is part of a multi-year project to determine whether these expectation have been fulfilled. Focusing on technological change, the impact of the reforms on the process of innovation is examined. It notes that the development process is proving to be highly heterogenous across industries, regions and firms and can be described as strongly inequitable. This differentiation that has emerged has implications for job creation, trade balance, and the role of small and medium sized firms. This ultimately suggests, amongst other things, the need for policies to better spread the use of new technologies.

Author : Eduardo Lora
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821365762
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of State Reforms in Latin America written by Eduardo Lora and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-10-23 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0881324515
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Washington Consensus written by Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary A. Clark
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791450321
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America written by Mary A. Clark and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-depth case study of Costa Rican economic reform efforts.

Author : Gustavo Flores-Macias
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199891672
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Neoliberalism? written by Gustavo Flores-Macias and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gusatvo Flores-Macias' After Neoliberalism? offers the first systemic explanation of why the ever-popular left-wing governments in Latin American countries have become extremely radical or moderate once in power.

Author : Graciela Moguillansky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789211557916
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investment and Economic Reform in Latin America written by Graciela Moguillansky and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a part of a project to study the economic reforms implemented in Latin America and the Caribbean in the last two decades. This publication analyzes the investment process and attempts to link macroeconomic aspects to sectoral, microeconomic and institutional factors. Thus, it examines the impact of structural reform, institutional change and market structures in conjunction with important legal and regulatory aspects. The book also contributes to the understanding of the investment process in the context of the economic reforms.

Author : Carol Wise
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-stabilization Politics in Latin America written by Carol Wise and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1980s Latin America has seen a definitive shift toward civilian rule. Significant trade, fiscal and monetary reforms have accompanied these changes, exposing previously statist economies to the forces of the market. Despite the conventional notion that liberal economic reforms sprang out of necessity, as opposed to an enlightened set of policy choices, the combination of civilian regimes and market-based strategies has proved to be resilient. Economic and political hardships remain, including a debt default in Argentina and an attempted coup in Venezuela; however, the defining themes of open market and liberal politics still dominate in the region.

Author : Jürgen Weller
Publisher : United Nations Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Reforms, Growth and Employment written by Jürgen Weller and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last ten to fifteen years, profound structural reforms have moved Latin America and the Caribbean from closed, state-dominated economies to ones that are more market-oriented and open. Policymakers expected that these changes would speed up growth. This book is part of a multi-year project to determine whether these expectation have been fulfilled. Analysing the impact of the reforms on employment it is argued that expectations were not fulfilled with respect to the operation of the labour markets. The reforms limited the expansion of employment in some sectors, particularly in tradeable goods. They also created a bias in labour demad for better educated workers which exacerbates inequality. It is thus made clear that the region faces major challenges both in increasing the number of jobs and improving job equality.