The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics

Herausgeber: Ocampo, José Antonio; Ros, Jaime

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive overview of the key factors affecting the development of Latin American economies that examines long-term growth performance, macroeconomic issues, Latin American economies in the global context, technological and agricultural policies, and the evolution of labour markets, the education sector, and social security programmes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 960
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 258mm x 184mm x 63mm
• Gewicht: 1754g
• ISBN-13: 9780199571048
• ISBN-10: 019957104X
• Artikelnr.: 33253503

Autorenporträt

José Antonio Ocampo is Professor and Director of the Economic and Political Development Program at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and Member of the Committee on Global Thought, and Co-President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, New York. He is a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Economic and Social Affairs, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL), and Minister of Finance of Colombia. ; Jaime Ros is Professor of Economics and Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame. He is former Professor of Economics at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecocómicas (CIDE), Mexico D.F. and Senior Economist at the Secretariat of the South Commission, Geneva. He has been a consultant for several international organizations and governments in Latin America.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: Development Paradigms and Long-term Growth Performance
* 1: . José Antonio Ocampo and Jaime Ros: Shifting Paradigms in Latin
America's Economic Development
* 2: Luis Bértola: Institutions and the Historical Roots of Latin
American Divergence
* 3: Mariano Tommasi, Martín Ardanaz, and Carlos Scartascini: Political
Institutions, Policymaking, and Economic Policy in Latin America
* 4: Nancy Birdsall, Augusto de la Torre, and Felipe Valencia Caicedo:
The Washington Consensus: Assessing A 'Damaged Brand'
* 5: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira: From Old to New Developmentalism in
Latin America
* 6: Carlos de Miguel and Osvaldo Sunkel: Environmental Sustainability
* Part II. Macroeconomics and Finance
* 7: Ricardo Ffrench-Davis and Stephany Griffith-Jones: Taming Capital
Account Shocks: Managing Booms and Busts
* 8: Roberto Frenkel and Martin Rapetti: Exchange Rate Regimes in Latin
America
* 9: Pablo Garcia and Manuel Marfán: Monetary Policy in Latin America:
Performance under Crisis and the Challenges of Exuberance
* 10: José María Fanelli: Domestic Financial Development in Latin
America
* 11: Guillermo Perry and Mauricio Cárdenas: Fiscal Policy in Latin
America
* 12: Javier Santiso and Pablo Zoido: Fiscal Legitimacy, Inequalities
and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America
* Part III: Integration into the World Economy
* 13: Diana Tussie: Latin America in the World Trade System
* 14: Paolo Giordano and Robert Devlin: Regional Integration
* 15: Eduardo Lora: The Effects of Trade Liberalization on Growth,
Employment and Wages
* 16: Edmar Bacha and Albert Fishlow: Recent Commodity Price Boom and
Latin American Growth: More than New Bottles for an Old Wine?
* 17: Francisco Rodriguez and José Gregorio Pineda: Curse or Blessing?
Natural Resources and Human Development
* 18: Joao Carlos Ferraz, Michael Mortimore and Marcia Tavares: Foreign
Direct Investment in Latin America.
* 19: Kevin Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski: China and the Future of
Latin American Economic Development
* 20: Alejandro Canales: Latin America in the Recent Wave of
International Migration
* Part IV: Productive Sector Development
* 21: Ricardo Hausmann: Structural Transformation and Economic Growth
in Latin America
* 22: Mario Cimoli and Gabriel Porcile: Learning, Technological
Capabilities and Structural Dynamics
* 23: José Gabriel Palma: Why Has Productivity Growth Stagnated In Most
Latin American Countries Since The Neo-Liberal Reforms?
* 24: Salomón Salcedo, Fernando Soto-Baquero, Jose Graziano da Silva,
Rodrigo Castañeda, and Sergio Gómez: Agricultural and Rural
Development
* 25: Humberto Campodónico: An Energy Panorama of Latin America
* 26: César Calderón and Luis Servén: Infrastructure in Latin America
* Part V: Social Development
* 27: Leonardo Gasparini and Nora Lustig: The Rise and Fall of Income
Inequality in Latin America
* 28: Rebeca Grynspan and Luis Felipe Lopez Calva: Multidimensional
Poverty in Latin America: Concept, Measurement and Policy
* 29: Robert Vos: Economic Insecurity and Development in Latin America
and the Caribbean
* 30: Victor Tokman: Employment: The Dominance of the Informal Economy
* 31: Maria Victoria Murillo, Lucas Ronconi, and Andrew Schrank: Latin
American Labor Reforms: Evaluating Risk and Security
* 32: Miguel Urquiola: Education
* 33: Francisco Ferreira and David Robalino: Social Assistance in Latin
America: Achievements and Limitations
* 34: Andras Uthoff: Social Security Reforms in Latin America