Latin America is together with Sub-Saharan Africa the most unequal region of the world. This paper documents recent inequality trends in the Latin American region, going beyond traditional measures of...
The economic success of China and India is looked upon with admiration but also concern about the effects that the growth of these Asian economies may have on the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region's...
2006 ABCDE Conference: focus on 15 years of changes by Boris Pleskovic. Poverty and inequality : inequality and growth in transition -- does China's rising inequality portend Russia's future? by Pradeep...
2006 ABCDE Conference: focus on 15 years of changes by Boris Pleskovic. Poverty and inequality : inequality and growth in transition -- does China's rising inequality portend Russia's future? by Pradeep...
Investing in education, opening up to new technologies through foreign trade and investment, and encouraging private sector research and development are the keys to unlocking the potential of technology...
Economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean in the last 40 years has been disappointing. Gaps between it and the developing countries instead of closing have been widened, and the East Asian countries...
Beginning in the 1980s, but especially during the 1990s, Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries launched trade policy reforms that remain controversial partly due to the mixed overall economic performance...
在欧洲,财政政策争论的焦点是怎样使自动稳定器发挥作用,同时达到财政合并的目的。人们几乎一致同意把财政政策作为反周期性手段的重要性,因为货币政策再也无法发挥这种作用了。相反,在拉丁美洲和加勒比地区(LAC),大多数有关财政政策的讨论只涉及偿付能力问题,严重忽视了经济的周期性作用。这之所以令人感到意外,是因为LAC经济的动荡性远远超过欧洲经济,而且它们一般都采用了加重动荡的亲周期性财政政策。有些分析家和决策者似乎认为,只有工业化国家才有经济能力享受反周期性的财政政策;或者至少认为,成功地建立了反周期性财政政策的LAC国家(除智利以外)在试图减少其财政政策中明显的亲周期性特点之前,必须首先解决紧迫的调整和偿付能力问题。...
The note looks at what it takes for countries, and firms to "learn how to learn". Education is vital, for at least two reasons. First, it has always been a critical complement to technological advance...
The note looks at what it takes for countries, and firms to "learn how to learn". Education is vital, for at least two reasons. First, it has always been a critical complement to technological advance...
With the goal of increasing effectiveness in reducing poverty in all of its forms the World Bank undertakes studies about gender equality. This report is one of several already undertaken in other countries...
This paper examines the main trends in the trade structure of Central American countries during the last two decades; the increasingly important role placed by the United Status as a main trade partner;...
These are the proceedings of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, which gathers the global perspective of scholars, and practitioners of development policy from academic life, government...
This study identifies the main factors that explain the recovery of the Mexican economy after the currency crisis of 1995. A growth decomposition exercise shows that export growth mitigated somewhat the...
The paper analyzes the adjustment process in the aftermath of speculative attacks against the currencies of six countries - Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand. Even though the Mexican...
The study focuses on decentralization, referring to the process of returning the political, fiscal, and administrative powers, to sub-national units of government. It examines the decentralization transformation...
The study focuses on decentralization, referring to the process of returning the political, fiscal, and administrative powers, to sub-national units of government. It examines the decentralization transformation...
The paper analyzes the adjustment process in the aftermath of speculative attacks against the currencies of six countries - Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand. Even though the Mexican...
This volume focuses on lessons learned in Chile - its successes and failures - and in the process examines policy issues that must be addressed in the future. It presents a series of papers analyzing different...
The paper describes the development of a value added tax (VAT) to suit Colombia's need, as well as the major problems with the administration and structure of this tax and changes in it during the 1983-84...