Pathways to growth
Subtitle: comparing East Asia and Latin America
By: Nancy Birdsall and Frederick Jaspersen, editors.
Contributors: Birdsall, Nancy.; Jaspersen, Frederick Z.; Inter-American Development Bank.
Publisher: Published by Inter-American Development Bank; Distributed by The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; [Baltimore, MD]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Saving and investment -- Latin America -- Congresses.; Saving and investment -- East Asia -- Congresses.; Capital market -- Latin America -- Congresses.; Capital market -- East Asia -- Congresses.; Latin America -- Economic policy -- Congresses.; East Asia -- Economic policy -- Congresses.
Other titles: Comparing East Asia and Latin America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-323).
"The genesis of this book was an IDB-sponsored conference, 'Development experience of the Latin American and East Asian countries,' held in Santiago, Chile in June 1994"--P. [v].
Table of contents: value: Lessons from East Asia's success / Nancy Birdsall and Frederick Jaspersen; value: The East Asian miracle and the Latin American consensus: can the twain ever meet? / John Page; value: Growth of the Latin American and East Asian economies / Frederick Jaspersen; value: Education, growth, and inequality / Nancy Birdsall, David Ross, and Richard Sabot; value: Why are Latin America's savings rates so low? / Sebastian Edwards; value: Saving, growth, and macroeconomic vulnerability / Michael Gavin, Ricardo Hausmann, and Ernesto Talvi; value: Developing strong capital markets / Paul Boeker; value: The role of exports in Asian development / Howard Pack; value: Beyond macro and education policies / Guy Pfefferman; value: The payoffs from economic reforms / Vinod Thomas and Jisoon Lee.