Introduction: Canada’s Past and Future in the Americas: Beyond the “Americas Strategy” / Pablo Heidrich and Laura Macdonald -- Locating Latin America: Geography, Identity, and the Americas in Canadian Foreign Policy / Asa Mckercher -- Life-death-rebirth: the Latin American Working Group...

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Elections, Mandates, and Representation -- Neoliberalism by Surprise -- Spatial Models of Democracy and the Puzzle of Mandate Violations -- Rent-Seeking and the Impossibility of Mandates -- Taking...

Climate change is the defining development challenge of our time. More than a global environmental issue, climate change and variability threaten to reverse recent progress in poverty reduction and economic growth. Both now and over the long run, climate change and variability threatens human...

This study documents the effects of the 2008-09 global financial crisis on poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In doing so, it describes and decomposes the effects of the crisis on poverty using data from comparable household budget surveys for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,...

Entrepreneurship -- manifested in the entry of new firms or products into new markets, or substantial improvements in technological capacity or process innovation by incumbent firms -- is widely considered to be an important ingredient for long term economic development. This report argues that...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, it is hard to find any macroeconomic policy report that does not include some reference to financial stability or systemic risk and the resulting need for "macroprudential policies." While there is a large and growing literature on macroprudential...

Over the last decade Latin America and the Caribbean region has achieved important progress towards the World Bank Group's goals of eradicating extreme poverty and boosting income growth of the bottom 40 percent, propelled by remarkable economic growth and falling income inequality. Despite this...