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Book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth ABCD-LAC focuses on decentralisation and the need to bring governments closer to the people in a rapidly changing global economic environment.

Book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1999

Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1999 written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by Washington, D.C. : World Bank. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by Washington, D.C. : World Bank. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First Annual Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Download or read book First Annual Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Shahid Jved Burki and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1998

Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1998 written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the papers which were presented at the Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin Aerica and the Caribbean that the topics were about financial system and economic development.

Book Rethinking Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean

Download or read book Rethinking Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Marianne Fay and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) does not have the infrastructure it needs, or deserves, given its income. Many argue that the solution is to spend more; by contrast, this report has one main message: Latin America can dramatically narrow its infrastructure service gap by spending efficiently on the right things. This report asks three questions: what should LAC countries’ goals be? How can these goals be achieved as cost-effectively as possible? And who should pay to reach these goals? In doing so, we drop the ‘infrastructure gap’ notion, favoring an approach built on identifying the ‘service gap’. Benchmarking Latin America in this way reveals clear strengths and weaknesses. Access to water and electricity is good, with the potential for the region’s electricity sector to drive competitive advantage; by contrast, transport and sanitation should be key focus areas for further development. The report also identifies and analyses some of the emerging challenges for the region—climate change, increased demand and urbanization—that will put increasing pressure on infrastructure and policy makers alike. Improving the region’s infrastructure performance in the context of tight fiscal space will require spending better on well identified priorities. Unlike most infrastructure diagnostics, this report argues that much of what is needed lies outside the infrastructure sector †“ in the form of broader government issues—from competition policy, to budgeting rules that no longer solely focus on controlling cash expenditures. We also find that traditional recommendations continue to apply regarding independent, well-performing regulators and better corporate governance, and highlight the critical importance of cost recovery where feasible and desirable, as the basis for future commercial finance of infrastructure services. Latin America has the means and potential to do better; and it can do so by spending more efficiently on the right things.

Book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America 1997

Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America 1997 written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third Annual Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) focuses on trade liberalization policy, specifically " open regionalism, " a term coined to describe the fact that 1) regionalism has gone hand in hand with unilateral trade opening:statistics on tariff and non-tariff measures affecting imports show that protectionist policies have been dismantled in the major LAC countries during the last decade; 2) regionalism has gone hand in hand with a substantial liberalization of investment regimes:provisions, including national treatment provisions, in regional trading arrangements show that several LAC countries treat foreign direct investment on exactly the same footing as domestic investment; and 3) most LAC countries are willing to participate in building a hemispheric free-trade zone and have been active, pro-liberalization members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Speeches emphasized the political returns from trade integration:reciprocal lock-in, alliances created among pro-reform factions, pro-integration movements across countries, civil society integration, more-likely peaceful settlements to disputes, and general advancement of harmony in the Western Hemisphere through atmospherics, through positive incentive structures, and through cross-country coalitions. Because these positive linkages are largely implicit and not unduly burdensome, they make regional integration consistent with convergence toward global trade integration.

Book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1997

Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1997 written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Economic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

Download or read book Economic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Norman Loayza and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are suffering severe economic downturns and the success of market-oriented reforms is being called into question. This report seeks to contribute to the debate by examining the nature of economic growth in the region. The aim is threefold: to describe the basic characteristics of growth; explain differences across countries and to forecast changes over the next decade.

Book Trade Towards Open Regionalism

Download or read book Trade Towards Open Regionalism written by World Bank and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FTAA, education, environment, Andean pact, unilateral liberalization, NAFTA, agriculture, finance, business, macroeconomic, protectionism.

Book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1996

Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1996 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report of the proceedings of the Second Annual Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (ABCD-LAC) focuses on prospects for reducing poverty and improving inequality. Latin America is one of two regions in which the incidence of poverty has increased over the last ten years. Not only has the number of poor increased, but also has the proportion of the poor. This region has the most pronounced income disparity of all developing regions in the world, and poverty is becoming a predominantly urban phenomenon. The crises in Mexico and Argentina have vividly demonstrated that economic shocks can have severe consequences on both income distribution and the incidence of poverty. Among the special groups identified as needing assistance are indigenous people, women--particularly female heads of households, and children. Conference outcomes include the need to create societies where equal opportunities are accessible to all; the importance of creating conditions for human capital development; the view that public policy must integrate women into any poverty-alleviating strategy; the major role for the press and the media in influencing communities and their behavior toward less-privileged groups; the expansion of access to maternal and child services and to credit to support entrepreneurship; and the need to build the capacity of indigenous communities while preserving their identity.