Latin American Macroeconomic Reforms
Subtitle: The Second Stage
Contributors: Jose Antonio Gonzalez (Editor); Vittorio Corbo (Editor); Anne O. Krueger (Editor); Aaron Tornell (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: July 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780226302676
Subjects: Macroeconomics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Economics - Macroeconomics; Business & Economics / Macroeconomics; General; Commercial policy; Congresses; Fiscal policy; Latin America; Monetary policy
First sentence: Latin America was the region with the highest inflation in the world until the early 1990s.
Description: Hidden behind a number of economic crises in the mid- to late 1990s - including Argentina's headline-grabbing monetary and political upheaval - is the fact that Latin American economies have, generally speaking, improved dramatically in recent years. Their success has been due, in large part, to macroeconomic reforms, and this book brings together economists and policymakers to assess a decade of such policy shifts, highlighting both the many success stories and the areas in which further work is needed.