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  Inflation targeting in Latin America

  Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2001

  This paper analyses Latin America's recent experience with the use of inflation targeting (IT)in the light of the region's progress toward eradicating high inflation.
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  One decade of inflation targeting in the world: what do we know and what do we need to know?

  Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2001

  This paper provides a brief review of the main design features of 18 inflation targeting experiences in industrial and emerging economies and gives a statistical analysis as to whether countries under inflation targeting are structurally different from noninflation targeting industrial countries.The paper also addresses: existing evidence about the success of inflation targetingthe
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  Capital flows to Brazil : the endogeneity of capital controls

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  This paper investigates the determinants of capital flows to Brazil and constructs an index of capital controls that includes restrictions on both outflows and inflows.
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  Capital Controls: Country Experiences with Their Use and Liberalization

  International Monetary Fund, 2000

  Aims to develop a deeper understanding of the role that capital controls may play in coping with volatile movements of capital, as well as complex issues surrounding capital account liberalization. It provides a detailed analysis of specific country cases to shed light on the potential benefits or costs of capital controls, including those used in crisis situations.
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  Racing to the bottom?: foreign investment and air quality in developing countries

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 2000

  This article looks at whether globalisation could trigger an environmental "race to the bottom", in which competition for investment and jobs relentlessly degrade environmental standards. The "race to the bottom" theory is tested by examining firstly, air quality data in industrialised countries and selected developing countries (China, Mexico, Brazil).
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  Bank debit taxes in Latin America: an analysis of recent trends

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  This paper investigates whether the decision by six Latin American countries, to levy taxes on withdrawals from bank accounts has been successful.
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  Structural adjustment and the institutional dimensions of agricultural research and development in Brazil: soybeans, wheat and sugar cane

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Structural adjustment, liberalisation and the pressures of technological change are having major impact on the institutional organisation of the agro-industrial sector. In industrialised countries, the private sector is positioned to play the vanguard role in the next generation of agricultural technologies.
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  Globalisation and supply chain networks: the auto industry in Brazil and India

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  Examines the restructuring of the auto industry, and in particular the auto components sector in Brazil and India. In both countries, trade liberalisation and changes in auto industry policy led to large nflows of FDI and major changes in auto industry structure in the 1990s.

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