The World Bank and structural adjustment in Latin America

IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty

World Bank Directives, Domestic Interests, and the Politics of Human Capital Investment in Latin America

The World Bank, pharmaceutical policies, and health reforms in Latin America.

Health care systems spend a relatively high percentage of their resources on the purchase of medicines, and the poor spend a disproportionate amount of their income on pharmaceuticals. There is ample evidence in the literature that drugs are very poorly used. World Bank-led health reforms aim at improving equity, efficiency, quality, and users' satisfaction, and it will be difficult to achieve ...

ANNUAL WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

entity. They believe it would benefit the country and, thus—an unwarranted deduction—they would be better off. Soon after a concrete proposal is put forth, many realize that, though reform will bring a net gain to society, they will be among the losers. Opposition—not to the abstract reform but to any concrete proposal—always arises. Collectively, economic agents prefer gradual to sudden change...

Growth and Adjustment in East Asia and Latin America*

This paper compares the experience of growth performance and macroeconomic adjustment between East Asia and Latin America over the period from 1970 to 2000. We find that the difference in growth performance between two regions are largely attributed to the differences in fundamental growth factors such as investment rate, human resources, fertility, institutional quality, macroeconomic stabilit...