This paper surveys selected themes in the political economy of policymaking in Latin America, with an emphasis on recent research focusing on actual decision and implementation processes, and on the political institutions and state and social actors involved in those processes. In particular,...

This paper takes up a question frequently raised but rarely addressed empirically - do macroeconomic policy changes and exogenous macro shocks have significant impacts on poverty and income inequality more generally? For 15 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean over the past two decades,...