El autor examina en este articulo la evolucion reciente del coeficiente de ahorro interno - o fraccion no consumida del producto - en la region. Muestra su estancamiento con relacion al que prevalecia antes de la crisis de la deuda externa, no obstante la aguda caida que ha sufrido el consumo...

En los decenios recien pasados los paises del Asia Oriental han experimentado un desarrollo economico mas satisfactorio que el de los paises latinoamericanos. Se han propuesto numerosas interpretaciones para explicar esta disparidad. El presente trabajo considera la hipotesis de que, debido a...

This paper studies the experience of Latin-America [LATAM] with financial liberalization in the 1990s. The rush towards financial liberalizations in the early 1990s was associated with expectations that external financing would alleviate the scarcity of saving in LATAM, thereby increasing...

Countries receiving large-scale capital inflows are at risk if these flows do not find their way into productive and long-term investment, as the Asian crisis of the late 1990s has proven. This book, the result of a joint project between the OECD Development Centre and the UN Economic Commission...

This paper studies the experience of Latin-America [LATAM] with financial liberalization in the 1990s. The rush towards financial liberalizations in the early 1990s was associated with expectations that external financing would alleviate the scarcity of saving in LATAM, thereby increasing...