CEPAL Review no.102

Macroeconomics for development: from “financierism” to “productivism” / Ricardo Ffrench-Davis. -- Global economic crises, environmental-resource scarcity and wealth concentration / Ramón López. -- From national to local economic development: theoretical issues / Mario D. Tello. -- A competitiveness index for the regions of a country / Jorge Benzaquen, Luis Alfonso del Carpio, Luis Alberto Zegarra and Christian Alberto Valdivia. -- The paradox of progressivity in low-tax countries: income tax in Guatemala / Santiago Díaz de Sarralde, Carlos Garcimartín and Jesús Ruiz-Huerta. -- Differential fuel taxes and their effects on automobile demand / Claudio A. Agostini. -- Is education income-equalizing? Evidence from Peru / Adolfo Figueroa. -- Fiscal policy in times of crisis: macroeconomic effects of the
primary surplus / Manoel Carlos de Castro Pires, Fábio Goto and Bruno Rocha. -- The dynamics of Mexican manufacturing exports / Víctor M. Cuevas. -- CEPAL Review referees in 2009 and January-August 2010. -- Guidelines for contributors to CEPAL Review.