Local economic development and territorial competitiveness in Latin America

Competitiveness and New Technologies in Latin America OBSTACLES TO BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND THE SIZE OF FIRMS IN LATIN AMERICA

C Co om mp pe et ti it ti iv ve en ne es ss s a an nd d N Ne ew w T Te ec ch hn no ol lo og gi ie es s i in n L La at ti in n A Am me er ri ic ca a Abstract * Business development in Latin America faces great difficulties. Businessmen assign an alarming importance to the problem of lack of financing. Major outstanding problems also include excessive taxes and regulation, policy instability and,...

Institutions and Economic Development: Judicial Reform in Latin America

Economic Crisis and Democracy in Latin America

While the world is focused on the economic impact of the financial and credit meltdown, what might be its impact on politics? In well-established democracies, probably not more than elections lost by incumbent parties seen as having mismanaged the economy.Butwhat of consolidatingdemocracies that predominate in thedevelopingworld, where some forecasts expect the crisis to hit the poor especially...

Social movements and the dynamics of rural territorial development in Latin America

2 Summary.-This special section brings together four of twelve studies conducted within a research program analyzing the relationships among social mobilization, governance and rural development in contemporary Latin America. The introduction gives an overview of the contemporary significance of social

National Competitiveness in Comparative Perspective: Evidence from Latin America

The term competitiveness is widely applied as a catch-all for investor-friendly policies and institutions. This article argues that sloppy applications of the term ignore the possibilities of policy tradeoffs and varieties of institutional choices. Popular conceptualizations of the term describe three discernible clusters of economic policies and institutions. One cluster captures openness to i...