The paper documents the major trends in financial development in Latin America and the Caribbean since the early 1990s. The paper compares trends in Latin America and the Caribbean with those in Asia, Eastern Europe, and advanced countries and compares countries within Latin America and the...

Este libro representa un nuevo aporte al análisis de los desafíos de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe y al planteamiento de opciones de políticas para enfrentarlos. En los últimos 30 años, América Latina y el Caribe ha transitado por períodos de luces y sombras, durante los...

This report is the proceedings of the fifth Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, held on June 20-22, 1999, in Valdivia, Chile. The conference is now generally referred to as ABCD-LAC. The theme of the conference is entitled "Decentralization and...