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Chile in Transition : Prospects and Challenges for Latin America’s Forerunner of Development
Benedikter, Roland (ed.); Siepmann, Katja (ed.) - 2015
The economic, political and social situation in Chile shows a country in transition. Some observers anticipate a broad “reboot” of the nation. While Chile is still seen by many as an example of progress in South America and of developmental potential in the global South, it faces a complex...
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Economic Growth with Equity : Challenges for Latin America
Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo (ed.); Machinea, José Luis (ed.) - 2007
This book analyses the development challenge faced by Latin America at a time at which the concerns for the large inequality in the region are at a peak. This volume focuses on growth-with-equity, and is written by an outstanding group of Latin American and international researchers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054269
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Trade, Development and Political Economy : Essays in Honour of Anne O. Krueger
Lal, Deepak (ed.); Snape, Richard H. (ed.) - 2001
Trade, Development and Political Economy takes fundamental issues in trade and development policy and subjects them to well-based economic analysis in a form that is easily accessible to the non-specialist. Distinguished contributors address some of the following questions: Are critics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054121
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Culture, Growth and Economic Policy
Petrakis, Panagiotis E. - 2014
Costs and Economic Institutions -- The Effects of Culture, Transactions and Institutions on Opportunity Entrepreneurship … Background and Economic System -- The Effect of Cultural Background on Incentives, Growth and Distribution and Vice Versa … analysis of the development of cultural background itself. Cultural background is embodied in political institutions, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014017590
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2017
Acs, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László; Lloyd, Ainsley - 2017
data with institutional components. Presenting data from the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI … understanding of entrepreneurship and a more precise means to measure it. In addition to yearly data and comparison, this 2017 … entrepreneurship: the GEDI and the Total Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) measure. Whereas developed countries will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397437
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2016
Acs, Zoltan; Szerb, László; Autio, Erkko - 2017
This brief captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship by measuring entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities, and … aspirations at both the individual- and country-level. Featuring data from the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index … provides a tool to help policymakers and governments harness the power of entrepreneurship to address some of the economic …
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2014
Acs, Zoltán J. - 2015
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 National Systems of Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 3 Institutions, Incentives, and … Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 4 The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index -- Chapter 5 Methodology and Data Description …This volume captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019100
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Saving for development : how Latin America and the Caribbean can save more and better
Cavallo, Eduardo A. (ed.); Serebrisky, Tomás (ed.) - Inter-American Development Bank - 2016
Why should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in the good times is what really counts. People must save to invest in health and education, live...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398045
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Development Connections : Unveiling the Impact of New Information Technologies
Chong, Alberto (ed.) - 2011
Development Connections takes stock of recent advances in what is broadly known as Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The authors seek to discover how information and telecommunication technologies affect both the public and private sectors in Latin America and how they can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053797
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Economic and Financial Developments in Latin America
Motamen-Samadian, Sima (ed.) - 2006
This book evaluates the economic effect of monetary policies and exchange rate arrangements within Latin America. Using theoretical and empirical studies, the text examines pertinent issues in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, including the role of currency board, inflation targeting and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054027