This paper examines the financial crisis which took place in Colombia during 1982 and its effect in the economy of the country. As a starting point, the paper establishes a basic principle: the financial crisis having as a main cause the financial behavior of the productive companies; it also...

Creación de espacio fiscal para reducir la pobreza provee un diagnóstico de la política fiscal de Ecuador y analiza la estructura y el funcionamiento del gasto público a fin de identificar reformas que permitan una gestión más eficiente y sostenible. El desafío principal de las...

The last Public Expenditure Review for Ecuador (PER) was produced in 1993. More than a decade later, the purpose of this report is to provide the Ecuadorian authorities with the World Bank's and Inter-American Development Bank's joint comprehensive account of their diagnoses and recommendations...

Competing in the world economy does not automatically boost a nation's productivity and restructure its economy. Such progress requires mobilizing capital, employment, technology and knowledge. Opportunities beyond the business realm must be fully exploited to the benfit of society as a whole....

Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews...

Competing in the world economy does not automatically boost a nation's productivity and restructure its economy. Such progress requires mobilizing capital, employment, technology and knowledge. Opportunities beyond the business realm must be fully exploited to the benfit of society as a whole....

Creación de espacio fiscal para reducir la pobreza provee un diagnóstico de la política fiscal de Ecuador y analiza la estructura y el funcionamiento del gasto público a fin de identificar reformas que permitan una gestión más eficiente y sostenible. El desafío principal de las...

Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews...