Resumen Este volumen recoge la versión revisada de los trabajos presentados al XI Seminario Regional de Política Fiscal, realizado en la Escuela de Hacienda Pública (ESAF) de Brasil, localizada en Brasilia D.F., en enero de 1999. Los temas abordados y los trabajos invitados fueron definidos por un Comité Organizador compuesto por representantes de CEPAL, FMI, Banco Mundial y BID. El primer tema está dedicado al análisis de los problemas de coordinación de políticas macroeconómicas en presencia de choques externos. El segundo analiza las perspectivas del impuesto sobre la renta en un mundo de e…
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This paper analyses two decades of economic adjustment in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on its impact on the agricultural (and in some cases, the rural) sector. A critical evaluation of the dramatic structural changes that took place in the region is merited in the face of the new international financial crisis that is affecting the continent, especially since the agricultural sector has not been given sufficient significance in the reform process.
The context of such an analysis gradually changed during the 1990s. The Washington …
Introduction (first paragraphs of the introduction);
This paper analyses two decades of economic adjustment in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on its impact on the agricultural (and in some cases, the rural); sector. A critical evaluation of the dramatic structural changes that took place in the region is merited in the face of the new international financial crisis that is affecting the continent, especially since the agricultural sector has not been given sufficient significance in the reform process.
The context of such an analysis gradually changed during the 1990s. The Washingto…
Export Growth in Latin America: Policies and Performance by Carla Macario with Regis Bonelli, Adriaan ten Kate and Gunnar Niels. Latin American and Caribbean countries have substantially transformed their economies over the past decades by adopting policies that set aside import substitution development strategies and foster a greater outward orientation of their economies, assigning a high priority to increasing exports. Nevertheless, in most cases export performance is still deficient, and many countries in the region have not fully taken advantage of the opportunities arising from …
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