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Public Policies for Human Development

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Overview

    • Rob Vos, Marco V. Sánchez, Enrique Ganuza
    Pages 1-15
  3. Argentina

    • Martin Cicowiez, Luciano Di Gresia, Leonardo Gasparini
    Pages 127-158
  4. Bolivia

    • Wilson Jiménez, Mirna Mariscal, Gustavo Canavire
    Pages 159-183
  5. Chile

    • Raul O’Ryan, Carlos J. de Miguel, Camilo Lagos
    Pages 185-211
  6. Costa Rica

    • Marco V. Sánchez
    Pages 213-243
  7. Ecuador

    • Mauricio León, José Rosero, Rob Vos
    Pages 245-277
  8. Honduras

    • Maurizio Bussolo, Denis Medvedev
    Pages 279-306
  9. Mexico

    • Araceli Ortega, Miguel Székely
    Pages 307-327
  10. Nicaragua

    • Marco V. Sánchez, Rob Vos
    Pages 329-364
  11. Peru

    • Juan F. Castro, Gustavo Yamada
    Pages 365-385
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 387-406

About this book

This book assesses financing strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean, in pursuance of the United Nations' millennium development goals (MDGs) and their achievement in 2015. It looks at how to make public policies more conducive to support sustained growth and reduce the still widespread poverty and inequality in the region

Keywords

  • development
  • economic growth
  • growth
  • labor market
  • macroeconomics

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations (UN-DESA), New York, USA

    Marco V. Sánchez, Rob Vos, Enrique Ganuza

  • Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG), World Bank, USA

    Hans Lofgren, Carolina Díaz-Bonilla

About the editors


MARCO V. SÁNCHEZ is economic affairs officer at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (UN/DESA), New York, and was previously associated with the Sub-Regional Office in Mexico City of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
 
ROB VOS is director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (UN/DESA), New York, and Professor of Finance and Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
  
ENRIQUE GANUZA is resident representative of the United Nations in Santiago de Chile and was chief economist for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) at the initiation of the project leading to the present publication
 
HANS LOFGREN is senior economist of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) of the World Bank. Prior to joining the Bank he was senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
 
CAROLINA DÍAZ-BONILLA is economist in the Poverty and Gender Unit of the Latin America and Caribbean Region (LCSPP) of the World Bank. During most of the project's duration, she was an economist in the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) of the World Bank.

 

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Hardcover Book EUR 142.99
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