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" Can Latin America compete? : "
edited by Jerry Haar and John Price
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BL
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654032
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Can Latin America compete? : : confronting the challenges of globalization /\ edited by Jerry Haar and John Price
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1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009, c2008
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xxiv, 309 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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9780230612143
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: 0230612148
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction : can Latin America compete? / John Price and Jerry Haar -- The macroeconomic environment of competitiveness / Claudio M. Loser -- Coveting human capital : is Latin American education competitive? / Jeffrey M. Puryear and Tamara Ortega Goodspeed -- Competitive capital markets : Brazil's capital markets finally maturing / John H. Welch -- Consumer and small business credit : building blocks of the middle class / Jan Smith, Tricia Juhn, and Christopher Humphrey -- Closing the technology gap / Peter T. Knight and Rosane A. Marques -- Fostering innovation : technological innovation in urban clusters / Scott Tiffin and Isabel Bortagaray -- Not all infrastructure is created equally : learning from the best practices and stunning failures of Latin American water infrastructure / Lee M. Tablewski -- Logistics : the software that drives an economy / John Price -- Legal reform : some emerging paradoxes of Latin America's legal and judicial reform movement / Linn Hammergren -- Property, the rule of law, and development in the Americas / Peter F. Schaefer and P. Clayton Schaefer -- Tax reform : tax policy, reform, and competitiveness in Latin America / Mauricio Carrizosa -- Labor reform : undercompetitive economies and unprotected workforce / Christopher Sabatini -- Regulatory reform : increasing competitiveness through regulatory and investment climate improvements in Latin America; the case of Mexico / José Luis Guasch and Benjamin Herzberg -- Public safety : the cost of living dangerously / John Price -- Conclusion : lessons learned and looking forward / Jerry Haar and John Price
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Competition-- Latin America
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Globalization-- Economic aspects-- Latin America
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Latin America, Economic policy
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Latin America, Economic conditions, 1982-
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Haar, Jerry,1947-
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Price, John,1966 November 29-
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