Eduardo Lora

La economía colombiana no es materia exclusiva de especialistas o iniciados. De forma clara y elocuente, este libro explica los asuntos que más nos afectan: salarios, pensiones, salud, educación, impuestos, medioambiente, tasas de interés, inflación, mercado laboral (con un revelador enfoque de género), crecimiento, desplazados, inmigración, y lo hace a la luz de los efectos de la pandemia y de la crisis social. Temas familiares en mayor o menor medida para todos, pues son parte de la vida diaria, que es donde se encuentran tanto las raíces del descontento como los nuevos futuros para los jóvenes. En la actualización que presentamos, Eduardo Lora hace una contribución única a la divulgación del conocimiento sobre la realidad colombiana y al debate nacional sobre las políticas públicas que necesita el país.

Economía esencial de Colombia (País 360)

Carol Graham

Merilee Grindle

Jessica Seddon Wallack

This monograph is part of a larger investigation of the political economy of institutional reform in Latin America undertaken by the Latin American Research Network. It examines some hypotheses about what can be done to improve the chances for successful institutional change. It draws on the results of four case studies (Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and Uruguay) to identify the characteristics of successful reforms and provide recommendations for policymakers who seek to improve their countries' institutions.

Political Strategies for Institutional Reform in Latin America

Improving the Odds

Inter-American Development Bank. Research Department

Should Latin America Fear China

Carmen Pagés

Ugo Panizza 

Ernesto H. Stein

The Research Department of the IDB (RES) performs innovative, comparative research on the development issues of greatest concern to the region today. It generates a wide variety of products based on this research and disseminates them to three principal audiences: the Bank, policymakers and the academic community. To commemorate its first decade of research, RES compiled a selection of the department's ten most influential papers, published through the Latin American Development Forum, a joint publications venture among the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the IDB, Stanford University Press and the World Bank.

A Decade of Development Thinking

"A copublication of the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank."

A Step Up the Social Ladder?

Entrepreneurship in Latin America

This book reviews state reforms in Latin America since the mid-1980s.

The State of State Reform in Latin America

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 and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a. political institutions and the state organization; b. fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c. public institutions in charge of sectoral economic policies (financial, industrial, and infrastructure); and d. social sector institutions (pensions, social protection, and education). In each of these areas, the authors summarize the reform objectives, describe and measure their scope, assess the main outcomes, and identify the obstacles for implementation, especially those of an institutional nature.

The State of State Reforms in Latin America

Carol L. Graham

The "quality of life" concept of quality of life is a broad one. It incorporates basic needs but also extends beyond them to include capabilities, the "livability" of the environment, and life appreciation and happiness. Latin America's diversity in culture and levels of development provide a laboratory for studying how quality of life varies with a number of objective and subjective measures. These measures range from income levels to job insecurity and satisfaction, to schooling attainment and satisfaction, to measured and self-assessed health, among others. Paradox and Perception greatly improves our understanding of the determinants of well-being in Latin America based on a broad "quality of life" concept that challenges some standard assumptions in economics, including those about the relationship between happiness and income. The authors' analysis builds upon a number of new approaches in economics, particularly those related to the study of happiness and finds a number of paradoxes as the region's respondents evaluate their well-being. These include the paradox of unhappy growth at the macroeconomic level, happy peasants and frustrated achievers at the microlevel, and surprisingly high levels of satisfaction with public services among the region's poorest. They also have important substantive links with several of the region's realities, such as high levels of income inequality, volatile macroeconomic performance, and low expectations of public institutions and faith in the capacity of the state to deliver. Identifying these perceptions, paradoxes, and their causes will contribute to the crafting of better public policies, as well as to our understanding of why "populist" politics still pervade in much of the region.

Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America

Paradox and Perception

Inter-American Development Bank

Vicente Fretes Cibils

Ana Corbacho

This exciting new volume provides an up-to-date overview of the current state of taxation in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, its main reform needs, and possible reform strategies that take into account the likely economic, institutional, and political constraints on the reform process.

Taxation as a Development Tool

More than Revenue

William D. Savedoff

Andrew Powell

Juan Carlos Navarro

Carlos Scartascini

Rita Funaro

Lucía Madrigal

Suzanne Duryea

Juan Camilo Chaparro

María Victoria Rodríguez-Pombo

Pablo Sanguinetti

Aimee Verdisco

Mariana Alfonso

Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates Latin America-specific questions, the Inter-American Development Bank surveyed people from throughout the region and found that perceptions of quality of life are often very different from the reality. These surprising findings have enormous significance for the political economy of the region and provide a wealth of information for policymakers and development practitioners to feast upon.

Understanding Quality of Life

Beyond Facts

Alejandro Gaviria

John Luke Gallup

This publication challenges the premise that geographical influences need not be taken into account in economic development issues. It argues that, based on a better understanding of geography, public policy can help control or channel its influence toward the goals of economic and social development and poverty reduction. Using both an international perspective and a case study approach for individual countries, the book examines geographical factors, such as land productivity, the presence of endemic diseases, natural disaster frequency and market access, in order to explore development inequalities between and within Latin American countries. It also considers policy options for overcoming the limitations of geography for the region.

Lessons from Latin America

Is Geography Destiny?

Eduardo Lora

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