Beyond Reforms

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• This collection presents the difficult challenges of the new economic era as well as a set of alternative economic policies to manage the open Latin A... Lees meer

Does What You Export Matter?

Daniel Lederman, William F Maloney

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Does what economies export matter for development? If so, can industrial policies improve on the export basket generated by the market? This book appr... Lees meer

Left Behind

Renos Vakis, Jamele Rigolini, Leonardo Lucchetti

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughou... Lees meer

The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• In Latin America, the only region in the developing world with a majority population in urban areas, criteria to prioritize policy actions for improvi... Lees meer

Breeding Latin American Tigers

Robert Devlin, Graciela Moguillansky

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• "This book is motivated by the emerging rehabilitation of industrial policies as a tool for supporting economic transformation and high rates of growt... Lees meer

Emerging Capital Markets and Globalization

Augusto De La Torre, Sergio Schmukler

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Back in the early 1990s, economists and policy makers had high expectations about the prospects for domestic capital market development in emerging ec... Lees meer

Is Geography Destiny?

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Geographic interpretations of development recently have become the subject of much renewed interest and debate within scholarly and public policy circ... Lees meer

New Century, Old Disparities

Hugo Nopo

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• After a sustained economic growth period at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one, Latin America still faces high inequality and l... Lees meer

Emerging Capital Markets and Globalization

Augusto De La Torre, Sergio Schmukler

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Back in the early 1990s, economists and policy makers had high expectations about the prospects for domestic capital market development in emerging ec... Lees meer

Natural Resources, Neither Curse nor Destiny

William F Maloney

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• 'Natural Resources: Neither Course nor Destiny' brings together a variety of analytical perspectives, ranging from econometric analyses of economic gr... Lees meer

Entrepreneurship in Latin America

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• "This book looks at both the potential and limits of policies to promote entrepreneurship as an important vehicle for social mobility in Latin America... Lees meer

Stop the Violence in Latin America

Laura Chioda

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has the undesirable distinction of being the world's most violent region, with 24.7 homicides per 100,000... Lees meer

Beyond Survival

Cristian C Baeza, Truman G Packard

• Hardcover | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Beyond Survival: Protecting Households from Health Shocks in Latin America breaks new ground in the ongoing debate about health finance and financial ... Lees meer

The Limits of Stabilization

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Latin America's macroeconomic crises of the 1980s and '90s forced a severe fiscal adjustment across the region. More often than not, fiscal stability ... Lees meer

New Policies for Mandatory Defined Contribution Pensions

Gregorio Impavido, Esperanza Lasagabaster, Manuel Garc-A-Huitrn

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Mandatory defined contribution pension markets are present in a growing number of countries around the world. But despite their popularity, policymake... Lees meer

Beyond Survival

Cristian C Baeza, Truman G Packard

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Beyond Survival: Protecting Households from Health Shocks in Latin America breaks new ground in the ongoing debate about health finance and financial ... Lees meer

Natural Resources: Neither Curse Nor Destiny

• Hardcover | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• For almost as long as economics has been a profession, the role of natural resources in the promotion of economic growth has been among the core issue... Lees meer

From Inside Brazil

Vinod Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Brazil faces important issues as to whether and how socio-economic and political reforms will be pursued with urgency and staying power. This book pre... Lees meer

The Limits of Stabilization

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Over the 1980s and 1990s, most Latin American countries witnessed a retrenchment of the public sector away from infrastructure provision and an openin... Lees meer

Great Teachers

Barbara Bruns, Javier Luque

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• "The seven million teachers of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are the critical actors in the region's efforts to improve education quality and ... Lees meer

Privatization in Latin America

Alberto Chong, Florencio Lopez De Silanes

• Hardcover | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Privatization in Latin America represents the first systemic economic analysis of the efficiency and distributive effect of privatization in Latin Ame... Lees meer

Lessons from NAFTA

Daniel Lederman, William F Maloney, Luis Servén

• Hardcover | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Analyzing the experience of Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the authors draw lessons for other countries considering fre... Lees meer

Investor Protection and Corporate Governance

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• Latin America has been surprisingly spared from a generalized wave of corporate governance scandals. One possible explanation is that the region's lev... Lees meer

Natural Resources

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Development Forum
• For almost as long as economics has been a profession, the role of natural resources in the promotion of economic growth has been among the core issue... Lees meer