Book Description
In-depth case study of Costa Rican economic reform efforts.
Author : Mary A. Clark
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791450314
In-depth case study of Costa Rican economic reform efforts.
Author : Eduardo Lora
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2006-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821365762
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 : Harry Ivan Costin
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Economic stabilization
ISBN :
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 : Mary A. Clark
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791490327
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
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 2003-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0881324515
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 : Gustavo A. Flores-Macias
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199891656
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 : William C. Smith
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Analyses processes of democratization and economic reform in five Latin American countries from the early 1980s to 1993.
Author : Sebastian Edwards
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195211054
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 : Fredrick B. Pike
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Latin America
ISBN :
Author : Norman Loayza
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Administracion publica - America Latina
ISBN :