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Title Revisiting Ecuador's economic and social agenda in an evolving landscape / [edited by] Vicente Fretes-Cibils, Marcelo Giugale, Eduardo Somensatto
Published Washington, DC : World Bank, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 453 pages) : illustrations
Series World Bank e-Library.
Contents Context and executive summary / Eduardo Somensatto -- Fiscal sustainability and debt management in Ecuador / Vincente Fretes-Cibils, Rashmi Shankar, and Elizabeth Currie -- Tax policy and administration / Osvaldo Schenone -- The banking system: current context and remaining challenges / Rashmi Shankar and Jean Clevy -- The oil and gas sector / Eleodoro Mayorga-Alba [and others] -- Economic growth through improved competitiveness and an enhanced investment climate / Mike Goldberg [and others] -- Electricity sector / Susan V. Bogach and Eduardo H. Zolezzi -- Boosting sustainable and equitable social development / Monique F. Mrazek -- The pension system / Rafael Rofman -- Sustainable and inclusive rural development / Francisco Pichon -- Enhancing public sector transparency and accountability / Edgardo Mosqueira -- Labor market and civil service in Ecuador / Jeffrey Rinne and Carolina Sanchez-Paramo -- Decentralization / Jonas Frank -- Basic infrastructure: water supply and sanitation, telecommunications, transport, and urban planning / Franz Drees-Gross [and others]
Summary "Revisiting Ecuador's Economic and Social Agenda in an Evolving Landscape provides updated accounts of Ecuador's key development challenges and the reasons behind those challenges, as well as some options for overcoming them. After exploring fiscal consolidation and growth, social development, and quality of governance, the book provides policy matrices for each sector and topic, including a proposed sequencing of policy steps."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
Economic history
Economic policy
Social conditions
Social policy
SUBJECT Ecuador -- Economic policy
Ecuador -- Economic conditions -- 1972- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040903
Ecuador -- Social policy
Ecuador -- Social conditions
Subject Ecuador
Form Electronic book
Author Fretes Cibils, Vicente, 1956-
Giugale, Marcelo
Somensatto, Eduardo
ISBN 9780821371466
0821371460