Product Description: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest countries in the world, ahead of countries such as Greece, Israel, and Spain...read more

Product Description: The Inter-American Development Bank and the OECD Development Centre created the International Forum on Latin American Perspectives as an annual meeting place of ideas and strategies from Latin America and from the OECD region. - The tenth meeting of

Product Description: Within the past decade, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and other Latin American countries have experimented with one form or another of political decentralization. This book considers the problems raised by these activities in Latin America and identifies the challenges yet to be encountered...read more

Product Description: Banking crises occur in both industrial and developing countries, but in Latin America they last longer, affect a larger segment of the banking industry and cost the public more. In Banking Crises in Latin America, distinguished policymakers, academicians and bankers examine the main causes of such crises, how governments can manage them more effectively, and how they can be prevented...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Latin American region is prone to economic shocks which tend to derail development efforts and introduce insecurity into economic planning. This book, the sixth in the "Forum on Latin American Perspectives" series, brings together the views of Latin American and other, especially European, specialists...read more

Product Description: The Inter-American Development Bank's conference on international capital flows in April 1995 was held as Latin America coped with the devaluation crisis that had erupted only months earlier in Mexico. This timely volume conveys the immediacy of the region's policy response as well as the longer-term lessons of how to manage large capital flows in a volatile economic environment...read more