Can Latin America compete? : confronting the challenges of globalization / edited by Jerry Haar and John Price.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haar, Jerry, 1947-

Price, John, 1966 November 29-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competition.

Latin America--Economic policy.

Latin America.

Economic policy.

Latin America--Economic conditions--1982-.

Economic conditions.

Competition--Latin America.

Globalization--Economic aspects--Latin America.

Globalization.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Contents:

Introduction : can Latin America compete? / John Price and Jerry Haar

The macroeconomic environment of competitiveness / Claudio M. Loser

Coveting human capital : is Latin American education competitive? / Jeffrey M. Puryear and Tamara Ortega Goodspeed

Competitive capital markets : Brazil's capital markets finally maturing / John H. Welch

Consumer and small business credit : building blocks of the middle class / Jan Smith, Tricia Juhn, and Christopher Humphrey

Closing the technology gap / Peter T. Knight and Rosane A. Marques

Fostering innovation : technological innovation in urban clusters / Scott Tiffin and Isabel Bortagaray

Not all infrastructure is created equally : learning from the best practices and stunning failures of Latin American water infrastructure / Lee M. Tablewski

Logistics : the software that drives an economy / John Price

Legal reform : some emerging paradoxes of Latin America's legal and judicial reform movement / Linn Hammergren

Property, the rule of law, and development in the Americas / Peter F. Schaefer and P. Clayton Schaefer

Tax reform : tax policy, reform, and competitiveness in Latin America / Mauricio Carrizosa

Labor reform : undercompetitive economies and unprotected workforce / Christopher Sabatini

Regulatory reform : increasing competitiveness through regulatory and investment climate improvements in Latin America; the case of Mexico / Luis Guasch and Benjamin Herzberg

Public safety : the cost of living dangerously / John Price

Conclusion : lessons learned and looking forward / Jerry Haar and John Price.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403975434

9781403975430

OCLC:

85830760

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