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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “guillermo perry”
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  • Improving Access and Quality of Public Services in Latin America

    To Govern and To Serve

    Edited by Guillermo Perry, Ramona Angelescu Naqvi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents insights from several countries in Latin America and beyond on how to organize critical sectors, such as education, roads and water, to improve quality, access and affordability. The innovative, multi-disciplinary studies in this volume discuss the outcomes of decentralization, school autonomy, participatory budgeting at the local level and other accountability mechanisms. Rich ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, And Growth: Prudence Or Abstinence?

    by Serven Luis; Perry Guillermo E.; Suescun Rodrigo ...
    Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. Very little attention was paid to the effects of fiscal policy on growth and on macroeconomic volatility over the cycle. Important issues such as the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • China's And India's Challenge To Latin America: Opportunity Or Threat?

    by Olarreaga Marcelo; Perry Guillermo E.; Lederman Daniel ...
    The economic successes of China and India are viewed with admiration but also with concern because of the effects that the growth of these Asian economies may have on the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. The evidence in China's and India's Challenge to Latin America indicates that certain manufacturing and service industries in some countries have been negatively affected by Chinese and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Military Missions in Democratic Latin America

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    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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  • Tax Havens

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    by Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux ...
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  • Murder City

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  • Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa

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    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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  • Reefer Madness

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