Can Latin America compete? : confronting the challenges of globalization

Abstract

Can Latin America Compete? / John Price and Jerry Haar -- 1. The Macroeconomic Environment of Competitiveness / Claudio M. Loser -- 2. Coveting Human Capital: Is Latin American Education Competitive? / Jeffrey M. Puryear and Tamara Ortega Goodspeed -- 3. Competitive Capital Markets: Brazil's Capital Markets Finally Maturing / John H. Welch -- 4. Consumer & Small Business Credit: Building Blocks of the Middle Class / Jan Smith, Tricia Juhn, and Christopher Humphrey -- 5. Closing the Technology Gap / Peter T. Knight and Rosane A. Marques -- 6. Fostering Innovation: Technological Innovation in Urban Clusters / Isabel Bortagaray and Scott Tiffin -- 7. Not all infrastructure is created equally: learning from the best practices and stunning failures of Latin American water infrastructure / Lee M. Tablewski -- 8. Logistics: the software that drives an economy / John Price -- 9. Legal Reform: Some Emerging Paradoxes of Latin America's Legal and Judicial Reform Movement / Linn Hammergren -- 10. Property, the Rule of Law, and Development in the Americas / Peter F. Schaefer and P. Clayton Schaefer -- 11. Tax Reform: Tax Policy, Reform and Competitiveness in Latin America / Mauricio Carrizosa -- 12. Labor Reform: Undercompetitive Economies and Unprotected Workforce / Christopher Sabatini -- 13. Regulatory Reform: Increasing Competitiveness through Regulatory and Investment Climate Improvements in Latin America; the Case of Mexico / José Luis Guasch and Benjamin Herzberg -- 14. Public Safety: The Cost of Living Dangerously / John Price -- Conclussion: Lessons Learned and Looking Forward / Jerry Haar and John Price.