This book at the specific institutional arrangements and the policy choices taht nderpin the management of public finances in the latin American and Caribbean region. It draws primarily from a sample of publicly available country financial Accountability Assessments and Country Procurement Assessment Reports undertaken at regular intervals.
This report discusses the relevant concepts and documents the facts about mobility in Latin America and Caribbean over the past two decades, both within and between generations. It investigates the rise of the Latin American middle class over the past 10-15 years and explores the size, nature, and composition of this pivotal new social group.
This book reports on the status and evolution of human opportunity in Latin America and The Caribbean. It builds on the 2008 publication in several directions. First, it uses newly available data to expand the set of opportunities and personal circumstances under analysis. Second, it compares human opportunity in the region with that in developed countries. And third, it looks at human opportun…
the importance of this research, which is at the heart of this book, is found not only in the analysis of the strategies themselves, which relate to the economic, political, and cultural context and are impossible to recreate, but also in the common operational principles guiding the public sector's organization for effective formulation and implementation of these strategies
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…
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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.
Understanding what an how students learns has emerged as a salient issue in Latin America, a region where the majority of children now have access to schools but few students learns the skills they need to succeed. Examines recent advances in our understanding of the policies and programs that affect learning and provides policy makers with effective options.
Workers’ remittances, a major source of financing for developing countries, are especially important in Latin America and the Caribbean. Remittances and Development relies on cross-country panel data and household surveys for 11 Latin American countries to explore the development impact of remittances flows along several dimensions : growth, poverty, inequality, schooling, health, labor suppl…
This book has two objectives : to identify the at-risk youth in LAC, and to provide evidence-based guidance to policy makers in LAC countries that will help them to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their youth investment. The book concludes that goverments can be more effective in preventing ypung people from engaging in risky behavior in the first place and also in assisting those …
This book provides a careful and through assessment of the knowledge accumulated so far conditional cash transfer programs ; it will inform and orient academic economists and policy makers when they consider starting, scaling-up, and evaluating programs of this nature. Further, the book also raises issues that, in my view, are very relevant and have so far been underemphasized, namely the need …
This book is provides a thorough examination of the labor market trends in the region in recent decades and assesses the role that labor demend and labor supply factors have played in shaping these outcomes.