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Economic and Fiscal Policy in Latin America

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Federalism, Fiscal Authority, and Centralization in Latin America. By Díaz-CayerosAlberto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvii + 277. $86.00 cloth.

Does the Investment Climate Matter? Microeconomic Foundations of Growth in Latin America. By FajnzylberPablo, GuaschJ. Luis, and LópezJ. Humberto. Washington, D.C.: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and World Bank, 2009. Pp. xxi + 321. $80.00 paper.

Informal Coalitions and Policymaking in Latin America. By AcostaAndrés Mejía. New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. xi + 192. $105.00 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Christina Wagner Faegri
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Carol Wise
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
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Copyright ©2011 by the Latin American Studies Association

References

1. Douglass North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

2. John Williamson, Latin American Adjustment: How Much Has Happened? (Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1990).

3. Sven Steinmo, Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, British, and American Approaches to Financing the Modern States (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993).

4. For exceptions, see Richard M. Bird and Pierre-Pascal Gendron, The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007); Junko Kato, Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).