Good transition needs friendly investment climate - some lessons of experience; by Guy Pfeffermann. Foreign investment slumps in Cuba. Labor policy dilemmas preceding EU enlargement - Labor markets of...
This paper addresses the question: which obstacles to doing business are considered to be the most serious by private sector managers in particular countries? The answers might help to identify policy...
"The management of the Fund favors greater transparency" - Stanley Fischer responds to IMF critics. Conditionality : this time, attached to the IMF : the US Congress's waiting game. Will wage arrears continue...
The purpose of this publication is to present statistical data on private investment trends. This third edition updates statistics in forty developing countries through 1990. This edition also shows the...
Since public spending is often a crucial component of economic activity in any country, this paper looks at the implications of public spending and its effects on poverty in the Latin American context...
This Banks world newsletter includes some of the following issue: a change of heart by Jill Roessner; AIDS: questions and answers by Martijn Paijmans; the way to San Jose by Leandro V. Coronel; Japan and...
This article reviews the economic performance of Latin American and Caribbean nations and relates it to underlying policies in order to forecast likely growth rates for the 1980s. The article is intended...