Potential output in Latin America: a standard approach for the 1950-2002 period

Includes bibliography

Foreign investment in Mexico after economic reform

Includes bibliography

Economic Survey of the Caribbean 2011-2012: positive growth amidst lingering downside risks

Includes bibliography

Preliminary overview of the economies of the Caribbean 2012-2013

Includes bibliography

Andean exchange-rate regimes, 1994-2003: a brief for stable but flexible" regimes"

Includes bibliography

Central bank independence and its relationship to inflation

Includes bibliography

Brazil: the international financial crisis and counter-cyclical policies

Includes bibliography

Capital flows to Latin America: recent developments

Includes bibliography

Economic survey of the United States, 1990

Incluye Bibliografía

Estudio económico de los Estados Unidos, 1990

Incluye Bibliografía

Cambio estructural para la igualdad: Una visión integrada del desarrollo

Incluye bibliografía.

Structural change and growth in Central America and the Dominican Republic: an overview of two decades, 1990-2011

This book explores the changes that have occurred as regards the production structure, trade and society in Central America and the Dominican Republic, and how these have influenced the countries’ growth trajectories. One of the conclusions it reaches is that the subregion overall has enjoyed faster economic growth than the rest of Latin America over the two decades examined, which has helped to raise people’s incomes and living standards. Yet this progress falls far short of what is needed, given the high levels of poverty and indigence and the glaring inequalities suffered by much of the population in Central America and the Dominican Republic. If the subregion is to attain higher levels of development with equality, one of the challenges it must tackle urgently is to adopt a strategy for changing its production structures and forging ahead with subregional integration, in order to correct productivity lags and income gaps. Another piece of unfinished business is to broaden the scope of action of fiscal and monetary policy, with a view to raising public investment, deploying countercyclical policies and developing greater resilience to external shocks.

Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2005-2006

Incluye Bibliografía

Capital Flows to Latin America and the Caribbean: 2014 Overview

Divergence in macro trends and in monetary policy in advanced economies was a dominant driver of rates and currencies in emerging markets in 2014. Diverging macroeconomic developments were reflected in different monetary policy actions in 2014, with the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) moving in the opposite direction of the U.S. Federal Reserve. The unwinding of the U.S. monetary stimulus, while the ECB and the BOJ step up their monetary stimulus, has underpinned an appreciation by the U.S. dollar, in which most commodities are priced. Latin American markets, which started the year under pressure from fears of the U.S. Federal Reserve tapering off its quantitative easing program and concerns over stability, ended 2014 under pressure from a stronger U.S. dollar. However, there are many signs that a slowdown in LAC financial markets – particularly debt markets, which have been breaking records in debt issuance for the past six years – is under way. The region’s growth prospects look somewhat brighter in 2015 relative to 2014, but a strengthening U.S. dollar, uneven global growth and weakness in commodity prices are skewing the risk toward the downside for the 2015 forecasts across the region.