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1 online resource (269 pages) |
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""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Growth, Employment, and Equity""; ""1 A New Approach to Analyzing Reforms: Macro- Micro Linkages""; ""2 The International Context: Trade and Capital Flows""; ""3 Structural Reforms and Public Policies""; ""4 Investment, Productivity, and Growth: Recovery and Modest Advances""; ""5 Employment and Equity: Continuing Challenges""; ""6 Heterogeneity in Responses of Sectors and Firms""; ""7 A Policy Agenda for the Next Decade""; ""References""; ""Additional Project Publications""; ""Index"" |
| Summary |
Annotation Analyzes the impact of economic reforms in nine countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, and Peru. Econometric evidence presented suggests that reforms have had a surprisingly small positive impact on growth and investment together with a small negative impact on employment and income distribution. Reforms' stronger effects were found at the country, sectoral, and microeconomic levels. The authors are affiliated with the UN's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) |
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Annotation In the last ten to fifteen years, the Latin American and Caribbean region has undergone the most significant transformation of economic policy since World War II. Through a series of structural reforms, an increasing number of countries have moved from closed, state-dominated economies to ones that are more market oriented and open to the rest of the world. Policymakers expected that these changes, in conjunction with lower rates of inflation and increased spending in the social area, would speed up economic growth, increase productivity, and lead to the creation of more jobs and greater equality. Have those expectations been fulfilled? Analyzing the impact of the reforms in nine countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru), this study provides a detailed picture of progress to date. At the overall regional level, the book suggests, the reforms have had a surprisingly small impact: a small positive impact on investment and growth, and a small negativeimpact on employment and income distribution. But at the country, sectoral, and microeconomic levels, it finds evidence of strong effects, with some units doing very well and others falling behind |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index |
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Print version record |
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Free enterprise -- Latin America
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Free enterprise -- Caribbean Area
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Economic history
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Economic policy
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Free enterprise
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Latin America -- Economic policy
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Caribbean Area -- Economic policy
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Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1982-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005678
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Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020286
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Caribbean Area
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Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Peres, Wilson
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| ISBN |
9780815798293 |
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0815798296 |
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