Growth challenges for Latin America : what has happened, why, and how to reform the reforms (English)

Latin America faces the twin challenges of achieving economic growth and reducing extreme inequality. Notwithstanding the heterogeneity among Latin American countries (LACs), most of them exhibit both: (i) low average Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth; and (ii) increased inequality during the 1980s. This long period includes the 'lost decade,' when outcomes in both variables were evidently negative. These negative trends have persisted since the...

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Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo;
Document Date
2010/01/01
Document Type
Working Paper (Numbered Series)
Report Number
57750
Volume No
1
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1
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Latin America,
Disclosure Date
2010/12/08
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Disclosed
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Growth challenges for Latin America : what has happened, why, and how to reform the reforms
Keywords
small and medium enterprise

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Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo.

Growth challenges for Latin America : what has happened, why, and how to reform the reforms (English). Commission on growth and development working paper ; no. 51 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/154691468270281708

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