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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451478603321

Autore

Lora Eduardo

Titolo

The State of State Reform in Latin America [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, : World Bank Publications, 2006

ISBN

1-280-76575-5

9786610765751

0-8213-6576-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (474 p.)

Collana

Latin American Development Forum

Disciplina

320.98

Soggetti

Latin America -- Economic policy

Latin America -- Politics and government

Latin America -- Social policy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 State Reform in Latin America: A Silent Revolution; Figures; Tables; 2 Reforming the Rules of the Game: Political Reform; 3 A Brief Overview of Judicial Reform in Latin America: Objectives, Challenges, and Accomplishments; 4 Public Administration and Public Employment Reform in Latin America; Boxes; 5 Budgetary Institutions; 6 Trends and Outcomes of Tax Reform; 7 Fiscal and Political Decentralization Reforms; 8 Privatization and Regulation in Latin America; 9 Two Decades of Financial Reforms

10 Productive Development Policies and Supporting Institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean11 Reform of Pension and Social Assistance Systems; 12 Education Reform as Reform of the State: Latin America Since 1980; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980's, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or ""second generation"" reforms. The State of State Reform in Latin America reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major areas



of institutional reform: a) political institutions and the state organization; b) fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c) public institutions in charge of...