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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.

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Because their economies were regulated, their financial systems 'repressed' and their states interventionist, for many years the countries of East Asia challenged the Washington consensus, offering an alternative development paradigm. However, in the 1990's, Asian capitalism was disrupted following Japan's stagnation and the financial crisis of 1997-98.Treading the unexplored theoretical terrain created by the simultaneous decline of the Washington Consensus and Asian developmentalism, this revealing book analyzes the comparative political economy of East Asia and Latin Americ

Asia - Economic conditions. --- Asia -- Economic conditions. --- Asia - Economic policy. --- Asia -- Economic policy. --- Latin America - Economic conditions. --- Latin America -- Economic conditions. --- Latin America -- Economic policy. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Asia --- Latin America --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- East Asia --- ASI / Asia - Azië - Asie --- LAM / Latin America - Latijns Amerika - Amérique Latine --- AR / Argentina - Argentinië - Argentine --- KR / South Korea - Zuid Korea - Corée du Sud --- MX / Mexico - Mexique --- CN / China - Chine --- 331.31 --- 338.340 --- Economisch beleid --- Algemene ontwikkeling in de Derde Wereld

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This paper presents empirical evidence on convergence of per capita output for regions within six large middle-income Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It explores the role played by several exogenous sectoral shocks and differences in steady states within each country. It finds that poor and rich regions within each country converged at very low rates over the past three decades. It also finds evidence of regional "convergence clubs" within Brazil and Peru- the estimated speeds of convergence for these countries more than double after controlling for different subnational levels of steady state. For the latter countries and Chile, convergence is also higher after controlling for sector-specific shocks. Finally, results show that national disparities in per capita output increased temporarily after each country pursued trade liberalization.

Economic development -- Latin America. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Latin America -- Economic conditions -- Regional disparities. --- Latin America -- Economic conditions. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Economic development --- Latin America --- Economic conditions --- Regional disparities. --- Economic conditions. --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- Exports and Imports --- Public Finance --- Agribusiness --- Industries: Manufacturing --- Natural Resource Extraction --- Trade Policy --- International Trade Organizations --- Agriculture: General --- Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General --- Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction: General --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General --- International economics --- Agricultural economics --- Manufacturing industries --- Extractive industries --- Public finance & taxation --- Trade liberalization --- Agricultural sector --- Manufacturing --- Mining sector --- Public expenditure review --- Commercial policy --- Agricultural industries --- Mineral industries --- Expenditures, Public --- Brazil

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Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, the thoroughly updated and revised second edition of Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America is an engaging critical analysis of the major political, economic, social, and ecological conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Expert chapter authors describe and analyze the economies and trading relations, politics and state policies, social inequalities and social injustices, indigenous communities, gender relations, influence of religion, wide array of social movements, and social ecology of the societies in this important region of the world.

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This book addresses two important and related questions: does participation in a market economy help or hurt indigenous peoples and how does it affect the conservation of tropical rainforest flora and fauna? Oddly, there have been few quantitative studies that have addressed these issues.Ricardo Godoy's research takes an important step toward rectifying this oversight by investigating five different lowland Amerindian societies of tropical Latin America?all of which are experiencing deep changes as they modernize. Godoy examines the effect of markets on a broad range of areas incl

Deforestation -- Economic aspects -- Latin America. --- Human ecology -- Government policy -- Latin America. --- Indians of Central America -- Social conditions. --- Indians of South America -- Social conditions. --- Latin America -- Economic conditions. --- Latin America -- Social conditions. --- Rain forest ecology -- Latin America. --- Rain forests -- Economic aspects -- Latin America. --- Social change -- Latin America.