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(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) En este trabajo se toma en cuenta las reformas actuales o propuestas del sistema financiero internacional, a la luz de la experiencia latinoamericana reciente. La mayoría de las propuestas se basan en uno de tres diagnósticos: flujos excesivos de...
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Our review of the main proposals on international financial architecture currently under consideration gives reasons for concern that excessive emphasis on improving stability by impeding capital flows will have a deleterious development impact. Sustainable development requires initiatives...
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This paper addresses the adequacy of post-reform growth in Latin America in the 1990s on the basis of international comparison and other relevant standards. It analytically explores and empirically tests a number of hypotheses to explain the perceived dissatisfaction with growth performance.
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(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) Las últimas crisis financieras y contagios recientes hacen cuestionar lo acertado de la apertura de la cuenta de capital. Existe el consenso de que hay algo pésimamente malo con la manera en que funcionan los mercados financieros en el caso de los...
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The debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid has intensified in recent years as aid has come under increasing budgetary pressures in donor countries. Whatever the merits of the opposing arguments, the fundamental issue arises of whether conventionally-used measures of aid such as ODA, which...
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(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) La discusión sobre la eficacia de la asistencia externa se ha intensificado en los últimos años, en la medida en que la asistencia ha venido experimentando cada vez más presiones presupuestarias en los países donantes. Independientemente de los...
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(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) ¿Volverán a dispararse los flujos de capitales hacia América Latina a medida que los países de la región se vayan recuperando de la recesión de 1998-99? ¿Y volverán a desplomarse nuevamente poco después, repitiendo así el ciclo del pasado?...
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This paper studies the proposition that capital inflows tend to take the form of FDI--i. e. , the share of FDI in total liabilities tends to be higher--in countries that are safer, more promising and with better institutions and policies. It finds that this view is patently wrong since it stands...
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Financial liberalization and integration have generated disappointing results. They were supposed to set up a win-win situation: capital would flow from capital-abundant, low-return, aging industrial countries to capital-scarce, high-return, young emerging countries. Growth in receiving...
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This paper discusses the economic performance of Latin America in the last decade, paying special attention to growth and the financial sector. In particular, it shows that external factors, such as like U. S. interest rates and the business cycle, play a key role in capital inflows, investment,...
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