Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Growth, Employment, and Equity
Author: Barbara StallingsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780815798293
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Brookings Institution Press and Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) publication 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 negative impact 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.
Confronting Development
Author: Kevin J. MiddlebrookPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804745897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Since the 1980s, Mexico has alternately served as a model of structural economic reform and as a cautionary example of the limitations associated with market-led development. This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary assessment of the principal economic and social policies adopted by Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s.
Reformas Constitucionales
Author: Rodolfo Becerra de la RocaPublisher: Plural editores
ISBN: 9789995410001
Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Mexican Agriculture 1521-1630
Author: Andre Gunder FrankPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521222099
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
`The conquerors wanted Indian labour, the crown Indian subjects, the friars Indian souls.' Thus the importance of the natives of Mexico to their Spanish conquerors has been described. In this book Andre Gunder Frank examines the dramatic impact of Spanish rule on Mexican society and agriculture, in terms of the demands of world capitalist development. Mr Frank traces the rapid transformation of the dominant institutions of Mexican labour organization which occurred after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in 1521: from a form of slavery, which lasted until 1533, through various forms of forced labour (the encomienda and the catequil or mica), to the establishment, after 1575, of the hacienda, with large-scale latifundia lands worked by serf-like ganan labour.
Reforming the Labor Market in a Liberalized Economy
Author: Gustavo MárquezPublisher: IDB
ISBN: 9780940602960
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In addition, countries must produce a transparent atmosphere that depoliticizes contract disputes and negotiations. Finally, they must reform and strengthen institutions responsible for labor policies.
The Power Struggles over the Post-neoliberal Social Security System Reforms in Venezuela and Ecuador
Author: Ezequiel Luis BistolettiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319981684
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This book carries out a comparative analysis of the power struggles over the post-neoliberal social security reforms in Venezuela and Ecuador. The research breaks down why the social security system reform initiated by Hugo Chávez’ government in Venezuela has come down since its passing in 2002, whereas the social security system reform initiated by Rafael Correa’s government in Ecuador has come along in spite of the obstacles since 2007. All in all, the analysis determined that the struggles over the social security system reforms in both countries remarkably corresponded to each other with regard to their structural conditions, points of contention, and contending actors. In contrast, the analysis established substantial divergences regarding the ways in which the struggles over both reforms came about, due to the divergent development of the struggles for hegemony between government and opposition. These divergences finally brought about the indefinite stagnation of the reform in Venezuela and the advancement of subsequent partial reforms aimed at the universalization of social security in Ecuador.
Changes in the Distribution of Income and the New Economic Model in Colombia
Author: Mauricio CárdenasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business cycles
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
"This paper has analyzed the changes in the distribution of income in Colombia since 1976 using data for urban economy (seven largest metropolitan areas) and for the manufacturing sector. Evidence is shown that the structural reforms that took place in the early 1990s have been related to higher income concentration in Colombia, where levels of inequality were already impressively high. The results suggest that both trade liberalization and skill complementary technological change have a positive impact on skill premiums"--p. 5.
Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the CaribbeanPublisher: UN
ISBN: 9789211218626
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2014 looks at how economic growth in the region has been slowing since 2011, and the data available for the first six months of 2014 indicate that the region will not match the growth rate of 2.5% recorded in 2013. Growth has been muted over the first few months of the year, owing to stagnant gross fixed capital formation and faltering private consumption. Government consumption, on the other hand, has picked up, and the net contribution of exports has been more positive than during the same period of the previous year. A regional growth rate of 2.2% is forecast for 2014.
A New Social Contract for Peru
Author: Daniel CotlearPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821365681
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Using the accountability framework developed by the World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People, this book analyzes the low-level equilibrium and the numerous reforms attempted in recent decades in Peru, and, based on this analysis, proposes interventions that would facilitate the creation of a new social contract for Peru.
