Today over 80 percent of the businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean have 10 employees or less and, depending on the country, they provide between 30 and 80 percent of employment. Yet, in spite of this new empowering view of microenterprises--as a means for the poor to earn their...

El presente artículo analiza el alcance de las transformaciones propuestas en el VI congreso del PCC, la forma en que éstas pueden contribuir a superar las principales restricciones de la economía cubana, así como aquellos aspectos que, a juicio del autor, permitirían estimular la...

En este libro se examinan las duras condiciones de la crisis económica sufrida por América Latina en los años ochenta, y la complejidad de los esfuerzos de ajustes y reformas estructurales emprendidos por estos países para restablecer la estabilidad y el crecimiento y corregir el deterioro...

Today over 80 percent of the businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean have 10 employees or less and, depending on the country, they provide between 30 and 80 percent of employment. Yet, in spite of this new empowering view of microenterprises--as a means for the poor to earn their...

This report examines the quality of public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean after more than a decade of political and economic reform. A wide variety of examples and case studies are presented in an analytical framework to help explain why policies that work in certain institutional...

En este libro se examinan las duras condiciones de la crisis económica sufrida por América Latina en los años ochenta, y la complejidad de los esfuerzos de ajustes y reformas estructurales emprendidos por estos países para restablecer la estabilidad y el crecimiento y corregir el deterioro...

This report examines the quality of public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean after more than a decade of political and economic reform. A wide variety of examples and case studies are presented in an analytical framework to help explain why policies that work in certain institutional...

This paper analyzes the episodes of economic growth in Guatemala over the last fifty years, with special emphasis in the post-1999 deceleration. The results show two important facts. First, there are good reasons to believe that this phenomenon may be temporary. Second, the post-1999...