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Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Recent Trends and Policy Challenges Hardback This book analyzes how growth and  job creation in the region's economies compare with other emerging countries, the impact of job creation and destruction on productivity growth and the creation of "good" jobs, and the relative importance and...
Does the Investment Climate Matter?
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Microeconomic Foundations of Growth in Latin America Hardback Policy makers in Latin America may need to complement their focus on macroeconomic stability with an increased emphasis on microeconomic reforms. Using empirical evidence linking actual firm performance to shortcomings in...
Does the Investment Climate Matter?
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Microeconomic Foundations of Growth in Latin America Paperback Policy makers in Latin America may need to complement their focus on macroeconomic stability with an increased emphasis on microeconomic reforms. Using empirical evidence linking actual firm performance to shortcomings in...
Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Paperback This title introduces new methods, such as an innovative Human Opportunity Index, for measuring inequality of opportunities and makes an assessment of its evolution in Latin America and the Caribbean over a decade.
China's and India's Challenge to Latin America
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Opportunity or Threat? Paperback What effect does the growth of these Asian economies have on the Latin American and Caribbean  region? Certain manufacturing and service industries have been negatively affected but there are positive aggregate effects for LAC economies associated with...
The Impact of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure
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Lights, Shadows, and the Road Ahead Paperback If Latin America and Caribbean governments are to increase infrastructure investment in politically feasible ways, it is critical that they learn from experience and have an accurate idea of future impacts. This book produces what is arguably the...
Remittances and Development
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Lessons from Latin America Paperback This book explores the large heterogeneity in migration and remittances patterns, development impact, and policy implications across Latin America and the Caribbean, ranked at the top of remittance-receiving regions. Its analysis helps policy makers...
Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth
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Prudence or Abstinence? Paperback This volume is concerned with the conduct of fiscal policy in Latin America, and its consequences for macroeconomic stability and long-term growth. It examines the extent of the procyclical and anti-investment biases embedded in the region's fiscal policies,...
Raising Student Learning in Latin America
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The Challenge for the 21st Century Paperback Understanding student learning is a salient issue in Latin America, which has achieved considerable success in access to basic education. This book examines recent advances in our understanding of policies and programs that affect student learning...
Investor Protection and Corporate Governance
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Firm-level Evidence Across Latin America Paperback This book analyzes the impact of corporate governance on firm performance and valuation, using unique datasets gathered at the firm-level?the first such data in the region?and results from a homogeneous corporate governance questionnaire.
Natural Resources, Neither Curse nor Destiny
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The State of State Reforms in Latin America
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Paperback 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. This title reviews and assesses the...
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