Whatever Happened to Latin America's Savings?
Author: J. Gabriel Palma
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13:
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Saving in Southeast Asia and Latin America Compared
Author: Mrs.Anuradha Dayal-Gulati
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 1997-09-01
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1451853300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper examines empirical determinants of private saving for a sample of economies in Southeast Asia and Latin America over the period 1975–95. It uses panel estimations to establish relationships between private saving rates and a range of policy and nonpolicy variables. The findings show that fiscal policy, particularly social security arrangements, influence private saving; also macroeconomic stability and financial deepening appear to have been important in accounting for differences in saving behavior between the two regions.
Saving for Development
Author: Inter-American Development Bank
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-08
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1349949299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy 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 enterprises, employ more workers in better jobs, and produce quality goods. Governments must save to build the infrastructure required by a productive economy, provide quality services to their citizens, and assure their senior citizens a dignified, worry-free retirement. In short, countries must save not for the proverbial rainy day, but for a sunny day - a time when everyone can bask in the benefits of growth, prosperity, and well-being. This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license.
Crisis and Reform in Latin America
Author: Sebastian Edwards
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780195211054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work provides a thorough analytical review of the processes that led to the transformation of many Latin American economies during the last decade. The author examines every aspect of adjustment and reform since 1980 and suggests alternative ways to consolidate the achievements.
Development and Structural Change in Asia-Pacific
Author: Martin Andersson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1134409400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA consideration of how the Asia-Pacific economies have developed since the financial crises, the effect of global forces on the national Asian economies and their different development paths as they jointly enter this new phase.
The State of State Reforms in Latin America
Author: Eduardo Lora
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2006-10-23
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 0821365762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatin 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 areas of institutional reform: a. political institutions and the state organization; b. fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c. public institutions in charge of sectoral economic policies (financial, industrial, and infrastructure); and d. social sector institutions (pensions, social protection, and education). In each of these areas, the authors summarize the reform objectives, describe and measure their scope, assess the main outcomes, and identify the obstacles for implementation, especially those of an institutional nature.
Economic and Social Development Into the XXI Century
Author: Louis Emmerij
Publisher: IDB
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9781886938212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat new directions will development take in the next century? A distinguished group of experts on economic development debated this question in late 1996. Their views of the emerging development consensus are presented in Economic and Social Development into the XXI Century. The authors give special attention to developing countries in Latin America and East Asia. Analyzing the growth of certain East Asian economies, they ask what can be emulated: state-engineered industrial policies? an export push? better initial income distribution? fiscal incentives to promote corporate growth? the region's successful land reform efforts, or the commitment to better education? While agreeing that equity is a major determinant of economic success, they differ regarding how to achieve it.
Safe Money
Author: Beatriz Marulanda
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1886938695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolicymakers in Latin America increasingly are turning to policies that have high economic rates of return and a favorable impact on income distribution. By providing financial services to small businesses and poor households -which normally lack such services- credit unions help secure growth with equity. The challenges faced by Latin America's credit unions today are likely to force them to further modernize and consolidate, fine tune their inherent advantages, improve mechanisms for prudential regulation, and find ways to increase their share of low and middle-income markets. Safe Money presents the new thinking on how credit unions can compete effectively in modern financial markets while still retaining their social mission.
Progress, Poverty and Exclusion
Author: Rosemary Thorp
Publisher: IDB
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781886938359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive Statistical Appendix provides regional and country-by-country data in such areas as GDP, manufacturing, sector productivity, prices, trade, income distribution and living standards."--BOOK JACKET.
