This paper examines the macroeconomic policies and outcomes experienced by the Latin American economies during the period 1990-2010. Macroeconomic policies refer to exchange rates, monetary and aggregate fiscal policies, while macroeconomic outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of...

Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the...

The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of .traditional. donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as .new. donors and South-South co-operation playing an inc