Fair growth
Subtitle: economic policies for Latin America's poor and middle-income majority
By: Nancy Birdsall, Augusto de la Torre, and Rachel Menezes.
Contributors: Torre, Augusto de la.; Menezes, Rachel.
Publisher: 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: value: Introduction: giving Latin America's majority a fair chance; value: A dozen equity tools; value: Rule-based fiscal discipline; value: Smoothing booms and busts; value: Social safety nets that trigger automatically; value: More taxes on the rich and better spending on the rest; value: Giving small businesses a chance; value: Protecting job mobility and workers' rights; value: Repairing rural markets; value: Tackling corruption head on; value: Schools for the poor, too; value: Dealing openly with discrimination; value: Consumer-driven public services; value: How the United States can help: opening markets and more.