Fiscal Reform and Structural Change in Developing Countries analyzes the experience of countries involved in major tax reforms in the 1980s and first half of the 1990s by a combination of qualitative and quantitative country studies and over-arching thematic studies. The emphasis is on the role of fiscal reform in stabilization and structural change, as well as the effects that policy for stabi…
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This book is a debate-style reader designed to introduce students to controversies in Latin American studies. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading scholars and commentators, reflect a variety of viewpoints and have been selected for their liveliness and subtance and because of their value in a debate framework. For each issues provides a concise introduction and postcripts sum…
Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. As a result, fiscal policy has often amplified cyclical volatility and dampened growth.