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Can the gains from Argentina's utilities reform offset credit shocks?
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001Paper isolates the distributional effects of utilities reform from the impact of other reforms taking place in the country during the 1990s.The analysis shows that both private and public agents gain from the increases in productivity and in service access made possible by the utilities reform.DocumentCapitalization, regulation and the poor: access to basic services in Bolivia
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001This paper analyses the privatisation of utilities in Bolivia, detailing the particularities of the capitalisation mechanism which was used for this purpose.The analysis suggests that capitalisation and regulation, and the liberalisation of the utilities sector more generally, succeeded in attracting foreign investment, thus fulfilling one of the central goals of the reforms of this sector.DocumentNAFTA monthly trade and economic database
Economics, Statistics and Market Information System, USDA Economics and Statistics System, 1999This numeric database includes monthly data and calendar year totals on the quantity and value of exports and imports for all US, Canada and Mexico commodities, consistent with the Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States. Also includes macroeconomic indicator tables on the NAFTA countries.DocumentBrazil: facing the challenge of competitiveness (GDI)
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 1999DocumentReshaping power markets: lessons from Chile and Argentina (WB)
Private Sector Development Department, World Bank, 1999DocumentMexican peso crisis: the foreseeable and the surprise (Brookings)
Brookings Institution, 1995The financial debacle that followed the Mexican devaluation in December 1994 left many analysts, investors and observers bewildered by its magnitude. This paper argues that the causes of the devaluation are quite different from the causes of the crisis, so different that the financial crisis was partly caused by the devaluation itself.DocumentLatin America and the Caribbean: major environmental concerns and underlying causes: GEO report
Global Environment Outlook Report and Project, UNEP, 1999