What are the reasons for and the costs of Latin America's volatility? Because there is no consensus on these fundamental questions, there is no consensus on the appropriate policy response to macroeconomic volatility in Latin America, and other shock-prone countries. This paper provides new...

This book contains the results of peer reviews of the competition law and policies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. Each review provides information on the history and economic context for competition law, an outline of the provisions of the current law and policies, a review of...

The central question tackled here is that of the desirability of foreign direct investment over other flows, such as bank lending. There has been an undoubted rise in FDI flows as a proportion of all flows to the Latin American region, but how much of the cause is supply- or demand-driven...

Presenta el estado de las remesas en el año 2007, donde se observa que las remesas a América Latina y el Caribe disminuyeron a comparación de los últimos años, debido a que los dos mayores receptores en la región, México y Brasil, se desviaron significativamente de las tendencias del pasado.

This report compressed the results of a four-month initiative to identify unmet needs and market opportunities in Colombia, El Salvador, Brazil and Mexico, and present a potential private sector solutions that can address these unmet needs profitably.

Peer reviews of competition law and policy are a valuable tool to reform and strengthen a country’s competition framework. This peer review of Brazil presents the evolution of its competition regime and assesses its competition law and policy.