Growth and External Financing in Latin America

New financing trends in Latin America

The transformation of financing, the changing nature of financial risks and the resulting policy challenges were the main topics of a meeting on “New financing trends in Latin America: a bumpy ride towards stability” held in Mexico City on May 26–27, 2007 and jointly organised by the Bank for International Settlements and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. This introduction is an overview of ...

External Quality Assessment Schemes in Latin America

As professionals of the clinical laboratory we must generate clinically useful results, products and services for the patients' health care. Laboratories must participate in one or more proficiency testing (PT) or external quality assessment (EQA) programs as part of routine quality assurance. Nevertheless participating per se is not enough. There are critical factors to take into consideration...

Sustained Growth in Latin America

16 Financing Urban Heritage Conservation in Latin America

Eduardo Rojas is a Senior Urb an Planner with the Inter-American Development Bank, supervising the bank's urban deve lopment portfolio. H e is currently desig ning several urban h eritag e preservation and revitalization loans and technical coop erations. He is task manager f or the Quito Historic Center Rehabilitation Loan granted to Ecuador. His degrees are in architecture, urban planning, an...

Growth in Latin America: Models and Findings

The performance of the Latin American economies in the 20th century has been disappointing. Using per capita GDP as a measure, Latin America has roughly maintained its income (relative to the world) over the last 100 years. If, instead the post-1950 performance is considered, the results are more discouraging. Using data from Maddison (2003), it follows that the Latin American economies had a l...