"Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity," a measure of a society's productive knowledge. Prosperous societies are those that have the knowledge to make a larger variety of more complex products. The Atlas of Economic Complexity attempts to measure ..."
"At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest countries in the world, ahead of countries such as Greece, Israel, and Spain. Between 1978 and 2001, however, Venezuela’s economy went sharply in reverse, with non-oil GDP declining by almost 19 percent and oil GDP by an astonishing 65 percent. Wh ..."
"Why do some new export activities succeed while others do not? Why are some not even attempted? In this book, distinguished research teams analyze eleven cases of new export endeavors in six Latin American countries to learn how export pioneers are born and jump-start a virtuous process leading to economic transformation. The case studies range from blueberries in Argentina and fresh cut flowers in Colombia to aircraft in Brazil and sof ..."
"Banking crises occur in both industrial and developing countries, but in Latin America they last longer, affect a larger segment of the banking industry and cost the public more. In Banking Crises in Latin America, distinguished policymakers, academicians and bankers examine the main causes of such crises, how governments can manage them more effectively, and how they can be prevented.The six sections of the book focus on the salient fe ..."
"Recent crises in emerging markets have been heavily driven by balance-sheet or net-worth effects. Episodes in countries as far-flung as Indonesia and Argentina have shown that exchange rate adjustments that would normally help to restore balance can be destabilizing, even catastrophic, for countries whose debts are denominated in foreign currencies. Many economists instinctually assume that developing countries allow their foreign debts ..."
"During this time, importsubstitution policies were in full swing in Latin America.33
Therefore, these attempts at industrialization around oil, rather than reflecting a “
cluster vision” of the sector, were just part of a wider set of policies ... from the
sector and use that revenue in other sectors, particularly the social sector. Given
that production reached its peak during this period and then started to decline, in
general thi ..."
"Mapping Paths to Prosperity Ricardo Hausmann, César A. Hidalgo, Sebastián
Bustos, Michele Coscia, Alexander Simoes, ... This has been mostly the effort of
Alex Simoes, who with the assistance of Crystal Noel developed The Observatory
to what it is now. Since it ... F O R E W O R D T O T H E P R E F A C E ver the past
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Other People's Money Debt Denomination and Financial Instability in Emerging Market Economies by RicardoHausmann, Barry J. Eichengreen 304 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-19457-8, ISBN: 0-226-19457-4
"Introduction. Debt. Denomination. and. Financial. Instability. in. Emerging. Market.
Economies. Barry Eichengreen and Ricardo Hausmann ONE OF the most
momentous developments of the last ten years has been the liberalization of
international financial markets. Much was promised on behalf of this policy.
External finance was supposed to supplement domestic savings and support
faster rates of capital formation in low- and middle-incom ..."
IMF Working Papers The Challenge of Fiscal Adjustment in a Democracy : The Case of India No. 04/168 by RicardoHausmann, Catriona Purfield 29 Pages, Published 2004 by International Monetary Fund ISBN-13: 978-1-4518-5829-7, ISBN: 1-4518-5829-9
"Braun, Hausmann, and Pritchett (2002) find the average volatility of GDP growth
in ... and the exchange rate on long-term, foreign currency debt is unknown. ..."
"What impact has decentralization had in Latin America? Political decentralization returns financial responsibility to the regional or state levels of government, a change of direction that can destabilize centrally established fiscal and budgetary targets. The question is how to reconcile enhanced democratization with the fiscal discipline demanded by the international marketplace. Analyses by economic experts, combined with r ..."
"Latin America has made a major effort over the past decade to put its financial house in order, modernize its macroeconomic policy, and undertake sweeping structural changes. These gains are now threatened by global financial contagion that spreads despite sound fundamentals, particularly to emerging markets.Wanted: World Financial Stability examines the roots of this turmoil, how it spreads, and what should be done both in Latin Americ ..."
"Artists increasingly refer to "post-object-based" work while theorists engage with material artifacts in culture. A focus on "object-based" learning treats objects as vectors for dialogue across disciplines. Virtual imaging enables the object to be abstracted or circumvented, while immaterial forms of labor challenge materialist theories. This anthology surv ..."
"The dawn of the electronic media age in the 1960s began a cultural shift from the modernist grid and its determination of projection and representation to the fluid structures and circuits of the network, presenting art with new challenges and possibilities. This anthology considers art at the center of network theory, from the 1960s to the present.Artists have used the "sp ..."