Does decentralization work in practice? Does it strengthen local level democracy and economic development? This book examines these questions by analyzing the experience of seven medium sized cities in Colombia and Chile. The authors draw on extensive fieldwork involving numerous interviews with actors at all levels and from all sectors. The result is a unique test, at the local level in Latin America, of the outcome of reforms to the institutional structure of government.

Decentralizing Development: The Political Economy of Institutional Change in Columbia and Chile (Queen Elizabeth House Series in Development Studies)

Business & Money

Thorp, Rosemary

Angell, Alan

Lowden, Pamela

Economics

Oxford University Press

Peru, 1890-1977: Growth and policy in an open economy

Macmillan

Inflation and Stabilisation in Latin America

Whitehead, Laurence

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Book by Thorp, Rosemary, Whitehead, Laurence

Latin American Debt and the Adjustment Crisis (St. Antony's/MacMillan Series (London, England))

Today Peru is undoubtedly poorer than Colombia. Yet at the turn of the century the opposite was true. This study asks why Peru has made relatively so much less progress, and finds part of the answer in the greater coherence and competence of short term policy management in Colombia. Whether the international economy has provided positive or negative shocks, Colombia has tended to manage them more skilfully than Peru - not be relying on the market but by generally pragmatic and prudent interventionist policies.

Economic Management and Economic Development in Peru and Colombia (Economic Choices before the Developing Countries)

Latin American Debt and the Adjustment Crisis (Pitt Latin American Series)

International

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Today Peru is undoubtedly poorer than Colombia. Yet at the turn of the century the opposite was true. This study asks why Peru has made relatively so much less progress, and finds part of the answer in the greater coherence and competence of short term policy management in Colombia. Whether the international economy has provided positive or negative shocks, Colombia has tended to manage them more skilfully than Peru - not be relying on the market but by generally pragmatic and prudent interventionist policies.

Economic Management and Economic Development in Peru and Colombia (Pitt Latin American Series)

Inflation and Stabilization in Latin America

History

Holmes & Meier Pub

The authors explain why the discovery and development of natural resources is commonly associated with unstable and unequal development, and frequently with violence. They demonstrate the need for policies and institutions by reflecting on both successes and failures in case studies on Botswana, Nigeria and Niger as well as Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

The Developmental Challenges of Mining and Oil: Lessons from Africa and Latin America (Conflict, Inequality and Ethnicity)

Paredes, M.

Battistelli, S.

Guichaoua, Y.

Orihuela, J.

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