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performance, which combined simultaneously very high rates of growth and declining inflation, productivity stands high. The …
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The 1980s were a lost decade for Latin America, will the 1990s also be lost? For some countries stabilization has not even started. In other countries the stabilization accomplishments remain tentative and vulnerable. And even those countries that have established firmly a new path for their...
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For the first time in its history, Latin America can benefit from not one but three major engines of world growth. Until the 1980s, the United States was the region's major trade partner. In the 1990s, a second growth engine emerged with the European investment boom in Latin America. Now, at the...
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The macroeconomics of populism / Rudiger Dornbusch, Sebastian Edwards -- The political economy of Latin American populism / Robert R. Kaufman, Barbara Stallings -- Populism, profligacy, and redistribution / Eliana Cardoso, Ann Helwege -- Description of a populist experience: Argentina, 1973-1976...
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Latin America is looking towards China and Asia -- and China and Asia are looking right back. This is a major shift: for the first time in its history, Latin America can benefit from not one but three major engines of world growth. Until the 1980s, the United States was the region’s major...
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This paper investigates the relationship between monetary policy and growth in five Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru).The analysis focuses on the effects of expected and unexpected monetary growth on output, and explicitly incorporates the relationship between...
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When countries attempt to stabilize annual inflation rates that are greater than 40 percent, the domestic stock market … appreciates by 24 percent on average. The present value of the long-run benefits to shareholders of reducing high inflation … statistically insignificant, if the pre-stabilization inflation rate is less than 40 percent. Stock market responses also help …
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