Understanding Market Reforms in Latin America

This books studies market reforms in eight key Latin American countries, aiming to shed light on the question of why similar policies have resulted in a variety of outcomes, ranging from outright failures to clear successes. The book focuses on policy implementation and the factors that impinge on the sustainability of market reforms.

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• research

'Studies and evaluates the market reforms in eight Latin American countries...All of the studies are authored by researchers drawn from the respective Latin American countries, and are comparable, being the result of a deeply coordinated research project.' - International Social Security Review

CARLOS H. ACUÑA Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina REGIS BONELLI Director, ECOSTRAT, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Research Associate, IPEA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DIONISIO BORDA Director, Centro de Análisis y Difusion de la Economia Paraguaya (CADEP), Paraguay DANIEL BUQUET Professor and Researcher in Political Science, Universidad de la República, Uruguay ARMANDO CASTELAR PINHEIRO Senior Researcher, IPEA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Professor of Economics, Federal University at Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil RÓMULO CHUMACERO Senior Economist, Research Department, Central Bank of Chile, Chile; Professor and Academic Director, PhD Program in Economics, University of Chile, Chile ALVARO FORTEZA Professor of Macroeconomics, Universidad de la República, Uruguay RODRIGO FUENTES Senior Economist, Research Department, Central Bank of Chile, Chile SEBASTIAN GALIANI Associate Professor of Economics, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri JOSE ALBERTO GARIBALDI Professor, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico MARINO GONZÁLEZ Professor, Department of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Universidad Simón Bolívar MARIO IBARBURU Professor of Economics, Universidad de la República, Uruguay JORGE LANZARO Professor and Researcher in Political Science, Universidad de la República, Uruguay ROLF LÜDERS Professor of Economics, Catholic University, Chile FRANCISCO MONALDI Director, International Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Institute for Advanced Management Studies, IESA, Venezuela; Professor, Andrés Bello Catholic University, Venezuela ANDRÉS PEREYRA Assistant Professor of Microeconomics, Universidad de la República, Uruguay DONALD G. RICHARDS Professor of Economics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA GERMÁN RÍOS Assistant Director, Andean Development Corporation (CAF), Venezuela BEN ROSS SCHNEIDER Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, USA EDUARDO SIANDRA Professor of Economics of Banking and Finance, Universidad de la República, Uruguay MARIANO TOMMASI Professor of Economics, Universidad de San Andres, Argentina MARCEL VAILLANT Economic Consultant, MERCOSUR Secretariat; Professor of International Trade, Universidad de la República, Uruguay; National Researcher (II), FNI-CONICYT, Uruguay JOAQUÍN VIAL Chief Economist, Global Trends Unit, Economic Research Department, BBVA, Spain RICARDO VILLASMIL Professor, Andrés Bello Catholic University, Venezuela; Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (IIES), Venezuela