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  • Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Recent Trends and Policy Challenges

    by Palgrave Macmillan UK, Carmen Pagés, Gaëlle Le Borgne Pierre, Stefano Scarpetta ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    More than a decade has passed since the introduction of comprehensive macroeconomic stabilization packages and trade, fiscal, and financial market reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, growth prospects remain disappointing; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low participation rates, high and persistent informality, and, in some cases, open unemployment. Creating viable ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Job Creation In Latin America And The Caribbean: Recent Trends And Policy Challenges

    by Pages Carmen; Pierre Gaelle; Scarpetta Stefano ...
    This book analyzes recent labor market trends in Latin American countries and the factors that underlie the failure to create more and more productive and rewarding jobs, a failure with substantial political and social costs. The authors analyze how growth and job creation in the region's economies compare with other emerging countries, the impact of job creation and destruction on productivity ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Saving for Development

    How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Save More and Better

    by Inter-American Development Bank ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Why should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in the good times is what really counts. People must save to invest in health and education, live productive and fulfilling lives, and make the most of their retirement years. Firms must save to grow their ... Read more

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  • Failed

    What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy

    by Mark Weisbrot, Mark Weisbrot ...
    Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Why did the vast majority of low- and middle-income countries suffer a prolonged economic slowdown in the last two decades of the 20th century? What was the role of the International Monetary Fund in these economic failures? Why was Latin ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Mozambique Rising: Building a New Tomorrow

    by Doris C. Ms. Ross, Victor Duarte Lledo, Alex Mr. Segura-Ubiergo, Yuan Mr. Xiao, Iyabo Masha, Alun H. Mr. Thomas, Keiichiro Mr. Inui ...
    This publication highlights Mozambiques remarkably strong growth over the two decades since the end of the civil war in 1992, as well as the major challenges that remain for the country to rise out of poverty and further its economic development. Chapters explore such topics as the role of megaprojects and their relationship to jobs and growth; infrastructure and public investment; Mozambique's ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The China Triangle

    Latin America's China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus

    by Kevin P. Gallagher ...
    Since 1980, China has evolved from a poor and mostly rural society into one of the largest economies in the world. As it grew into a major industrial power, it demanded enormous amounts of steel for new factories and cities, copper for electronic wires, petroleum for cars and manufacturing plants, and soybeans and cattle to feed its workers. By the 1990s, many Latin American countries were riding ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The State Of State Reform In Latin America

    by Lora Eduardo ...
    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 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Peru: Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group 2003-2009

    by World Bank ...
    This Peru Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group 2003-2009 is part of IEG?s country program evaluation series. To date IEG?s in-depth country evaluations have comprised IEG-WB Country Assistance Evaluations (CAEs) and IEG-IFC Country Impact Reviews (CIRs). Both the CAEs and CIRs have involved comprehensive evaluations of the respective institutions? activities in a country. In a pilot ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • OECD Economic Surveys: Brazil 2018

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Economie
    Strong growth and remarkable social progress over the past two decades have made Brazil one of the world’s leading economies, despite the deep recession that the economy is now emerging from. However, inequality remains high and fiscal accounts have deteriorated substantially, calling for wide-ranging reforms to sustain progress on inclusive growth. A better focus of social expenditures towards ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Globalization, Wages, And The Quality Of Jobs: Five Country Studies

    by Robertson Raymond; Brown Drusilla; Pierre Gaelle; Sanchez-Puerta Maria Laura ...
    Since the early 1990s, most developing economies have become more integrated with the world's economy. Trade and foreign investment barriers have been progressively lifted and international trade agreements signed. These reforms have led to important changes in the structures of these economies. The labor markets have adjusted to these major changes, and workers were required to adapt to them in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Unexpected Outcomes

    How Emerging Economies Survived the Global Financial Crisis

    Edited by Leslie Elliott Armijo, Saori N. Katada, Carol Wise ...
    This volume documents and explains the remarkable resilience of emerging market nations in East Asia and Latin America when faced with the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. Their quick bounceback from the crisis marked a radical departure from the past, such as when the 1982 debt shocks produced a decade-long recession in Latin America or when the Asian financial crisis dramatically slowed ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Public Debt Sustainability

    International Perspectives

    by Xavier Debrun, Pablo Guidotti, Lars Jonung, Carlos Newland, Emilio Ocampo, Jan-Egbert Sturm, Steve H. Hanke, Fredrik Ng Andersson, Charles Paul Blahous0, James C. Capretta1, Vera Z. Eichenauer2, Lars P. Feld3, Norbert J. Michel4, Wolf Heinrich Reuter5, Thomas R. Saving6, Kurt Couchman7, John Merrifield8, Barry Poulson0 ...
    As countries recover from the coronavirus pandemic, they are confronted with an even more challenging debt crisis. Xavier Debrun argues in the foreword that in deciding where we go from here that there is no longer a consensus regarding the optimum design and enforcement of fiscal rules. Rather we must address a series of questions and challenges to the conventional wisdom. This book provides an ... Read more

    $36.49 USD