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Financial development: A broader perspective

Reid, Richard - 2010

This paper seeks to add to the current debate about financial development and growth in the emerging world by looking at how different financial systems evolve: how and why financial structures change during various stages of development, how best to measure them, and seeing what practical...

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China, India, Brazil and South Africa in the world economy: Engines of growth?

Nayyar, Deepak - 2008

This paper attempts to analyse the economic implications of the rise of China, India, Brazil and South Africa, for … world economy. The answer is that rapid growth in China already supports growth elsewhere, so far primarily as a market for …

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Populism and Neopopulism in Latin America: Clientelism, Trade Union Organisation and Electoral Support in Mexico and Argentina in the 90s

Ronchi, Veronica - 2007

The state of anomie that has characterised and still characterises most Latin American countries, resulting from the fragmentation of the social fabric, has encouraged the rise of successful personalist leaderships in the '90s. This paper aims at investigating how neopopulism developed in Latin...

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The Neoliberal Myth in Latin America: The Cases of Mexico and Argentina in the 90s

Ronchi, Veronica - 2007

During the '90s most Latin American countries were submitted to neoliberal structural reform policies. Neoliberal policies imposed market supremacy, reduced the State's role in the economy and deregulated the markets. This paper aims at describing how these policies affected the most important...

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On the Latin American growth paradox: A hindsight into the Golden Age

Barboni, Giorgia; Treibich, Tania - 2010

In 1950, Latin American countries capabilities were promising, and the subcontinent was thought to have a big potential for convergence. In order to understand why this prediction was not fulfilled, we apply in this paper the framework set by Fagerberg and Srholec (2008(24)). Our study of the...

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Financial regulation and supervision in emerging markets: The experience of Latin America since the Tequila Crisis

Stallings, Barbara; Studart, Rogerio - 2002

The paper deals with changes in the regulation and supervision of the Latin American financial sector in the aftermath of the ‘Tequila Crisis’ of 1994–95. While it finds that both have improved, regulation and supervision cannot resolve all problems; good macroeconomic policy and...

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China's global growth and Latin American exports

Jenkins, Rhys - 2008

China's global expansion has led to concerns amongst other developing country exporters that they will be displaced by … which countries face from China, which is then applied to empirical data on US imports from China and 18 Latin American … countries. It also presents new estimates of the impact of China on the value of Latin American exports to the US over the past …

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Living La Vida Loca? Remote Investing in Latin America, 1869-1929

Campbell, Gareth; Gallagher, Áine; Grossman, Richard S. - 2024

Substantial amounts of British capital flowed to Latin America during the latter part of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Companies financed by this capital were typically headquartered in the UK, but operated thousands of miles away. This paper asks how this separation between...

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An analysis of the process of disinflationary structural change: The case of Mexico

Vaughan, Daniel - 2013

I study the diffusion process of permanent disinflationary shocks in the Mexican economy using disaggregated price data for 283 goods across 46 cities in the period 1995-2012. I first show that the distribution of shocks shows considerable heterogeneity, with more than 80% of all cases having...

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Origins of Latin American inequality

Eslava, Francisco; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2023

How deep are the roots of Latin America's economic inequalities? In this chapter we survey both the history and the literature about the region's extreme economic disparities, focusing on the most recent academic contributions. We begin by documenting the broad patterns of national and...

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