Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2005

Includes bibliography

An appraisal of capital goods policy in Argentina

Includes bibliography

Capital flows to Latin America: year end 2005

Includes bibliography

Stimulus of demand, investment and acceleration of the rate of growth

Includes bibliography

Investment and economic reform in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Savings, investment and growth in the global age: analytical and policy issues

Includes bibliography

The impact of exchange-rate and trade policy on export performance in the 1980s

Includes bibliography

Equity, foreign investment and international competitiveness

Includes bibliography

An econometric analysis of private-sector investment in Brazil

Includes bibliography

Exchange rate regimes and macroeconomic performance in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

Includes bibliography

Stylized features of the investment-growth connection in Latin America, 1980-2012

Estimates of investment and its components in Latin America over the past 30 years are used to review stylized facts relating to investment and explore factors that explain its connection with economic growth. In particular, the low level of investment, the reduction in public spending in the 1980s and its partial recovery along with private investment between 2003 and 2010 are explored. It is found that the increase in national income —on the back of rising terms of trade— made it possible to increase national saving and its contribution to financing investment between 2004 and 2008. The analysis of causality between the investment ratio and growth in gross domestic product (gdp) suggest that —for a considerable number of Latin American countries— changes in the growth rate have preceded changes in the investment ration in the period under study.