This paper looks at Venezuela’s export revenue, imports, and trade and current account balances under a range of oil price outcomes for the next two years. It finds that Venezuela would run large current account surpluses for prices between $60-90 per barrel, and would even run a small surplus...

This paper is the third installment in a series (the first and second editions were in 2001 and 2005) that traces a long-term growth failure in most of the world's countries.

Durante los últimos cuatro años, desde que el presidente Evo Morales asumió el poder, la economía boliviana ha crecido rápidamente. El gobierno ha expandido su control sobre los recursos naturales y aumentado sus ingresos enormemente. Ha utilizado política fiscal expansiva eficazmente para...

This book demonstrates how several emerging market and developing countries (EMDs) managed to reregulate cross-border financial flows in the wake of the global financial crisis, despite the political and economic difficulty of doing so at the national level. It also shows that some EMDs,...