Globalization, growth and crises
Subtitle: the view from Latin America
By: Sebastian Edwards.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 14034; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 14034.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "In this paper I analyze the role of openness and globalization in Latin America's economic development.  The paper is divided into two distinct part: I first (Sections II through IV) provide an analysis of 60 years of the region's economic history, that go form the launching of the Alliance for Progress by the Kennedy Administration in 1961, to the formulation and implementation of the market-oriented reforms of the Washington Consensus in the 1990s and 2000s.  I conclude that Latin America's history has been characterized by low growth, high inflation and recurrent external crises.  In Section V I deal formally with the costs of crises, and I estimate a number of variance component models of the dynamics of growth.  I find that external crises have been more costly in Latin America than in the rest of the world.  I also find that the cost of external crises has been inversely related to the degree of openness"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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