What is the impact of political decentralisation in Latin America? This book considers the problems raised by political decentralisation in the region and identifies the challenges ahead. Political decentralisation tends to devolve a certain amount of financial responsibility to the sub-national...

Quels sont les effets de la décentralisation en Amérique latine ? Cet ouvrage examine les problèmes soulevés par la décentralisation politique dans la région et identifie les défis à relever. La décentralisation délègue en effet un certain degré de responsabilité financière aux...

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 the Forum was held in Paris in November 1999 and...

El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE) cooperan en el derecho de la competencia y la política para promover el aumento del crecimiento económico, empleo y eficiencia económica, y un nivel de vida medio más elevado...

El Salvador’s first competition law took effect on 1 January 2006. The law, following some important amendments in 2007, is sound in most respects. It employs enforcement standards that are consistent with best practices in the worldwide competition community. It provides the new competition...

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...