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Latin American development priorities /

"Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have achieved considerable economic growth, yet the region still faces many seemingly intractable problems. The conventional wisdom in development agencies - that prioritization is impossible and that everything must be done - is simply not eff...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lomborg, Bjørn, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Democracy in the LAC region, challenges and solutions: political party and party system institutionalization and women's legislative representation / Mark P. Jones
  • Three proposals to improve education in the LAC region: estimates of the costs and benefits of each strategy / Amy Damon, Paul Glewwe
  • Education: an alternative view / Miguel Urquiola
  • Labor market reforms in the LAC region: consequences and costs / Alejandra Cox Edwards
  • Labor market reforms: an alternative view / Adriana Kugler
  • Forests, biodiversity, and avoided deforestation in the LAC region / Roger A. Sedjo, Juha Siikamäki
  • Forests and biodiversity: an alternative view / Randall A. Kramer
  • Fiscal policy reforms in the LAC region / Miguel Braun
  • Fiscal policy reforms: an alternative view / Max A. Alier, Benedict Clements
  • Challenges and solutions in health in the LAC region / Philip Musgrove
  • Challenges and solutions in health: an alternative view / William D. Savedoff
  • High logistics costs and poor infrastructure for merchandise transportation in the LAC region / Julio A. Gonzalez, José Luis Guasch, Tomas Serebrisky
  • High logistics costs and poor infrastructure for merchandise transportation: an alternative view / Ronald Fischer
  • Reducing poverty in the LAC region / Sebastian Galiani
  • Reducing poverty: an alternative view / Stephen D. Younger
  • Public administration and institutions in the LAC region / Susan Rose-Ackerman
  • Public administration: an alternative view / Ugo Panizza
  • Violence and crime in the LAC region / Mark A. Cohen, Mauricio Rubio
  • Violence and crime: an alternative view / Andrew Morrison.