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Economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: growth transitions rather than steady states
(CEPAL, 2007-08)
Recent evidence on economic growth indicates that growth fluctuations at frequencies of a decade or so are at the centre of the Latin American countries'growth story. In this context, investment has played an important ...
Savings in Latin America after the mid 1990s: determinants, constraints and policies
(ECLAC, 2007-01)
National savings and growth in Latin America have remained low in the 1990s and 2000s. The low level of national savings rates has forced Latin American countries to depend on foreign savings to finance investment and ...
Foreign direct investment in Latin America from the perspective of illicit financial flows: “cocacolonisation” of saving?
(2022-04)
This article analyses the implications of illicit financial flows for foreign direct investment (FDI). During the 2003–2017 period, in the financing of gross fixed capital formation in Latin America, external savings show ...
Foreign capital inflows and macroeconomic policies
(1994-08)
In recent years, a number of countries of the region have gained renewed access to international financial markets, thus passing abruptly from a situation of relative scarcity of external resources to one of abundance. ...
Growth with stability: financing for development in the new international context
(ECLAC, 2002-03)
Foreword In contrast to its situation during the lost decade", in the 1990s the Latin American and Caribbean region regained its access to international capital markets. Its return to these markets, in combination ...
Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2010
(ECLAC, 2011-01)
Following a 2.8% fall in GDP per capita in 2009, ECLAC predicts that Latin America and the Caribbean will grow at 6% in 2010, corresponding to an increase of 4.8% in GDP per capita, although sub-regional performance has ...
The effects of domestic demand shocks on inflation in a small open economy: Chile in the period 2000–2021
(2022-12)
This study decomposes the factors that determined inflation in Chile during the period 2000–2021. It finds that the main determinants of domestic inflation were variables of external origin and the exchange rate. Domestic ...
Reflections on development financing
(2001-08)
This article sets forth some reflections on the position of the region's countries and the different segments of their domestic financial structures in the international financial system. In the light of the financial ...