Title The state of state reform in Latin America / edited by Eduardo Lora

Published Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press ; Washington D.C. : World Bank, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 446 pages) : illustrations Series Latin American development forum Latin American development forum. Contents Foreword / Francis Fukuyama -- State reform in Latin America : a silent revolution / Eduardo Lora -- Reforming the rules of the game : political reform / J. Mark Payne and Juan Cruz Perusia -- A brief overview of judicial reform in Latin America : objectives, challenges, and accomplishments / Mariana Sousa -- Public administration and public employment reform in Latin America / Koldo Echebarría and Juan Carlos Cortázar -- Budgetary institutions / Gabriel Filc and Carlos Scartascini -- Trends and outcomes of tax reform / Eduardo Lora -- Fiscal and political decentralization reforms / Robert Daughters and Leslie Harper -- Privatization and regulation in Latin America / Alberto Chong and Juan Benavides -- Two decades of financial reforms / Arturo Galindo, Alejandro Micco, and Ugo Panizza -- Productive development policies and supporting institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean / Alberto Melo and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare -- Reform of pension and social assistance systems / Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Gustavo Márquez -- Education reform as reform of the state : Latin America since 1980 / Juan Carlos Navarro Summary Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or "second generation" reforms. The State of State Reform in Latin America reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a) political institutions and the state organization; b) fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c) public institutions in char Notes "A copublication of Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, and the World Bank." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Latin America POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General. Economic history Economic policy Politics and government Social policy Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Staat (politicologie) Politieke hervormingen. Politieke ontwikkeling. Política e governo -- América latina. Política econômica -- América latina. Política social -- América latina. Latinamerika -- politik och förvaltning. Latinamerika -- ekonomiska förhållanden. Socialpolitik -- Latinamerika. SUBJECT Latin America -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074911 Latin America -- Economic policy Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074891 Latin America -- Social policy Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000854 Subject Latin America Latijns-Amerika. AmÉrica Latina (CondiÇÕes EconÔmicas) -- 1945- Form Electronic book Author Lora, Eduardo. World Bank. ISBN 9780821365762 0821365762 0821365754 9780821365755 9780804755290 0804755299 9780804755283 0804755280 6610765758 9786610765751 1280765755 9781280765759

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