Latin America : new challenges to growth and stability / editors Dora Iakova, Luis M. Cubeddu, Gustavo Adler, and Sebastián Sosa.

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Over the past fifteen years countries in Latin America made tremendous progress in strengthening their economies and improving living standards. Although output fell temporarily during the global financial crisis, most economies staged a rapid recovery. However, economic activity across the region h...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Other Authors: Iakova, Dora (Editor)
Cubeddu, Luis M. (Editor)
Adler, Gustavo, 1974- (Editor)
Sosa, Sebastian (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : International Monetary Fund, [2014]
Subjects:
Economic development > Latin America.
Latin America > Economic conditions.
Latin America > Economic policy.
Fiscal policy > Latin America.
Prices > Latin America.
Capital movements > Latin America.
Financial risk management > Latin America.
Physical Description:ix, 260 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Also issued online.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Latin America's growth prospects. Latin America : rising to new challenges / Dora Iakova, Sebastián Sosa, and Alejandro Werner
  • Potential growth in Latin America / Sebastián Sosa, Evridiki Tsounta, and Hye Sun Kim
  • After the boom : commodity prices and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean / Bertrand Gruss
  • Managing the commodity price cycle : have policies improved? Commodity price cycles : the perils of mismanaging the boom / Gustavo Adler and Sebastián Sosa
  • Terms-of-trade booms : saving-investment patterns and a new metric of income windfall / Gustavo Adler and Nicolas E. Magud
  • External conditions and debt sustainability in Latin America / Gustavo Adler and Sebastián Sosa
  • Has fiscal policy become less procyclical in Latin America? / Alexander Klemm
  • Is Latin America vulnerable to rising capital flow volatility? Riding global waves: the impact of external financial shocks on emerging market economies / Gustavo Adler and Camilo E. Tovar
  • Global financial shocks and gross capital flows in Latin America / Gustavo Adler, Marie L. Djigbenou, and Sebastián Sosa
  • Spillovers to Latin America from the normalization of U.S. monetary policy / Alexander Klemm, Andre Meier, and Sebastián Sosa
  • Housing markets in Latin America : do we need to worry about a bubble? / Luis Cubeddu, Camilo E. Tovar, and Evridiki Tsounta.