The first part of the article presents a comparative analysis of the macroeconomic behavior of some of the Eurozone economies (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy: GIPSI countries) with that of a set of emerging market economies that experienced financial crises in the period of financial...

The currency board (Convertibility) collapsed between December 2001 and January 2002, after almost 11 years in force. The trends leading to the meltdown continued in the following months, plunging half of the population into poverty and one third into extreme poverty. Only six months later, the...

Beyond Reforms presents the contributions of some United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) analysts as well as research articles prepared for the Commission. It reviews long-term growth and development patterns and focuses on macroeconomic vulnerability and...

El objetivo principal de este trabajo es analizar la sensibilidad de las cuentas públicas argentinas en los años noventa respecto a las fluctuaciones del nivel de actividad y otros factores macroeconómicos, y evaluar la sostenibilidad financiera fiscal en el mediano plazo. Se construye para...

A fully opened capital account, a pure floating exchange rate, and inflation-targeting monetary policy is the macroeconomic setting currently recommended in Latin America by the International Monetary Fund and the orthodoxy. In this paper, we present an alternative macroeconomic regime proposal...