Fair growth
Subtitle: economic policies for Latin America's poor and middle-income majority
By: Nancy Birdsall, Augusto de la Torre, Rachel Menezes.
Contributors: Torre, Augusto de la.; Menezes, Rachel.
Publisher: Center for Global Development; Inter-American Dialogue; Center for Global Development ; Inter-American Dialogue
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781933286167
Subjects: Latin America -- Economic policy; Latin America -- Social policy
Description: "Presents 'tools' to make life in Latin America more equitable and fair for the majority. Suggests policies and programs for making tax structures more progressive; giving small businesses a chance; protecting labor mobility and workers' rights; tackling corruption; and raising levels of quality, efficiency, and equity of the education systems"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: Rule-based fiscal discipline; title: Smoothing booms and busts; title: Social safety nets that trigger automatically; title: More taxes on the rich and better spending on the rest; title: Giving small businesses a chance; title: Protecting job mobility and workers' rights; title: Repairing rural markets; title: Tackling corruption head on; title: Schools for the poor, too; title: Dealing openly with discrimination; title: Consumer-driven public services; title: How the United States can help: opening markets and more.