Raúl Prebisch fue una de las grandes figuras de América Latina que trascendió desde los años treinta como personalidad regional e internacional preponderante. Por ello cabe honrar el centenario de su nacimiento en la provincia de Tucumán, Argentina, en 1901, con un discurso especial y una...

Raúl Prebisch was one of the great figures in Latin America, a dominant regional and international personality since the 1930s, and it is therefore fitting to honor the centenary of his birth in Tucumán, Argentina in 1901 with a special lecture and conference on his life and work. Moreover, it...

The authors analyze the Washington Consensus, which at its original formulation reflected views not only from Washington, but also from Latin America. Tracing the life of the Consensus from a Latin American perspective in terms of evolving economic development paradigms, they document the...

El presente informe propone un nuevo contrato social, basado en el empleo y orientado a las aspiraciones de la vasta mayoría de la región, compuesta por personas de clase media cercanas a los niveles de pobreza, cuya participación es clave para lograr el crecimiento y fortalecimiento de la...

During the 1990s, the World Bank and several donor partners provided a “surge” in external aid to support Pakistan’s social sectors. Despite the millions of donor dollars spent, the program failed. Poverty was higher in Pakistan in 2004 than it was a decade earlier when the antipoverty...

Inclusive growth is widely embraced as the central economic goal for developing countries, but the concept is not well defined in the development economics literature. Since the early 1990s, the focus has been primarily on pro-poor growth, with the “poor” being people living on less than $1...