Can Latin America Compete? Confronting the Challenges of Globalization. - Ebook. - Originally published in: 2008 - Haar, Jerry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
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Introduction: Can Latin America Compete? - John Price and Jerry Haar * The Macroeconomic Environment of Competitiveness - Claudio Loser * Coveting Human Capital - Jeff Puryear and Tamara Ortega Goodspeed * Competitive Capital Markets - John Welch * Consumer and Small Business Credit - Jan Smith, Tricia Juhn, and Christopher Humphrey * Closing the Technology Gap - Peter Knight and Rosane Marques * Fostering Innovation - Isabel Bortagaray and Scott Tiffin * Return on Infrastructure Investment - Lee Tablewski * Logistics and Transport Services - John Price * Legal Reform - Linn Hammergren * Property, the Rule of Law, and Development in the Americas - Peter Schaefer and Clayton Schaefer * Tax Reform - Mauricio Carrizosa * Labor Reform - Christopher Sabatini * Regulatory Reform - Luis Guasch and Benjamin Herzberg * Public Safety - John Price * Lessons Learned and Looking Forward - Jerry Haar and John Price
Can Latin America compete? Many argue that the macroeconomic and trade reforms of the 1990s merely put a handsome coat of paint over education, labour, judicial, and administrative reforms that remain incomplete. This book identifies ten factors that most influence the competitiveness of Latin American nations and will shape their economic futures