Table of Contents

Part I: Development Paradigms and Long-term Growth Performance
1: . José Antonio Ocampo and Jaime Ros: Shifting Paradigms in Latin America's Economic Development
2: Luis Bértola: Institutions and the Historical Roots of Latin American Divergence
3: Mariano Tommasi, Martín Ardanaz, and Carlos Scartascini: Political Institutions, Policymaking, and Economic Policy in Latin America
4: Nancy Birdsall, Augusto de la Torre, and Felipe Valencia Caicedo: The Washington Consensus: Assessing A 'Damaged Brand'
5: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira: From Old to New Developmentalism in Latin America
6: Carlos de Miguel and Osvaldo Sunkel: Environmental Sustainability
Part II. Macroeconomics and Finance
7: Ricardo Ffrench-Davis and Stephany Griffith-Jones: Taming Capital Account Shocks: Managing Booms and Busts
8: Roberto Frenkel and Martin Rapetti: Exchange Rate Regimes in Latin America
9: Pablo Garcia and Manuel Marfán: Monetary Policy in Latin America: Performance under Crisis and the Challenges of Exuberance
10: José María Fanelli: Domestic Financial Development in Latin America
11: Guillermo Perry and Mauricio Cárdenas: Fiscal Policy in Latin America
12: Javier Santiso and Pablo Zoido: Fiscal Legitimacy, Inequalities and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America
Part III: Integration into the World Economy
13: Diana Tussie: Latin America in the World Trade System
14: Paolo Giordano and Robert Devlin: Regional Integration
15: Eduardo Lora: The Effects of Trade Liberalization on Growth, Employment and Wages
16: Edmar Bacha and Albert Fishlow: Recent Commodity Price Boom and Latin American Growth: More than New Bottles for an Old Wine?
17: Francisco Rodriguez and José Gregorio Pineda: Curse or Blessing? Natural Resources and Human Development
18: Joao Carlos Ferraz, Michael Mortimore and Marcia Tavares: Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America.
19: Kevin Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski: China and the Future of Latin American Economic Development
20: Alejandro Canales: Latin America in the Recent Wave of International Migration
Part IV: Productive Sector Development
21: Ricardo Hausmann: Structural Transformation and Economic Growth in Latin America
22: Mario Cimoli and Gabriel Porcile: Learning, Technological Capabilities and Structural Dynamics
23: José Gabriel Palma: Why Has Productivity Growth Stagnated In Most Latin American Countries Since The Neo-Liberal Reforms?
24: Salomón Salcedo, Fernando Soto-Baquero, Jose Graziano da Silva, Rodrigo Castañeda, and Sergio Gómez: Agricultural and Rural Development
25: Humberto Campodónico: An Energy Panorama of Latin America
26: César Calderón and Luis Servén: Infrastructure in Latin America
Part V: Social Development
27: Leonardo Gasparini and Nora Lustig: The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Latin America
28: Rebeca Grynspan and Luis Felipe Lopez Calva: Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America: Concept, Measurement and Policy
29: Robert Vos: Economic Insecurity and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
30: Victor Tokman: Employment: The Dominance of the Informal Economy
31: Maria Victoria Murillo, Lucas Ronconi, and Andrew Schrank: Latin American Labor Reforms: Evaluating Risk and Security
32: Miguel Urquiola: Education
33: Francisco Ferreira and David Robalino: Social Assistance in Latin America: Achievements and Limitations
34: Andras Uthoff: Social Security Reforms in Latin America

About the Author

José Antonio Ocampo is Professor and Director of the Economic and Political Development Program at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and Member of the Committee on Global Thought, and Co-President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, New York. He is a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Economic and Social Affairs, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL), and Minister of Finance of Colombia.
; Jaime Ros is Professor of Economics and Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame. He is former Professor of Economics at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecocómicas (CIDE), Mexico D.F. and Senior Economist at the Secretariat of the South Commission, Geneva. He has been a consultant for several international organizations and governments in Latin America.