Can Latin America compete?
Subtitle: confronting the challenges of globalization
By: edited by Jerry Haar and John Price
Contributors: Haar, Jerry, 1947-; Price, John, 1966 Nov. 29-
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781403975430
Subjects: Competition -- Latin America; Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Latin America; Latin America -- Economic policy; Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1982-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : can Latin America compete? / John Price and Jerry Haar; title: The macroeconomic environment of competitiveness / Claudio M. Loser; title: Coveting human capital : is Latin American education competitive? / Jeffrey M. Puryear and Tamara Ortega Goodspeed; title: Competitive capital markets : Brazil's capital markets finally maturing / John H. Welch; title: Consumer and small business credit : building blocks of the middle class / Jan Smith, Tricia Juhn, and Christopher Humphrey; title: Closing the technology gap / Peter T. Knight and Rosane A. Marques; title: Fostering innovation : technological innovation in urban clusters / Scott Tiffin and Isabel Bortagaray; title: Not all infrastructure is created equally : learning from the best practices and stunning failures of Latin American water infrastructure / Lee M. Tablewski; title: Logistics : the software that drives an economy / John Price; title: Legal reform : some emerging paradoxes of Latin America's legal and judicial reform movement / Linn Hammergren; title: Property, the rule of law, and development in the Americas / Peter F. Schaefer and P. Clayton Schaefer; title: Tax reform : tax policy, reform, and competitiveness in Latin America / Mauricio Carrizosa; title: Labor reform : undercompetitive economies and unprotected workforce / Christopher Sabatini; title: Regulatory reform : increasing competitiveness through regulatory and investment climate improvements in Latin America; the case of Mexico / Luis Guasch and Benjamin Herzberg; title: Public safety : the cost of living dangerously / John Price; title: Conclusion : lessons learned and looking forward / Jerry Haar and John Price