03957nam 22006015 450 991058447710332120240509001808.09783030990237(electronic bk.)978303099022010.1007/978-3-030-99023-7(MiAaPQ)EBC7044683(Au-PeEL)EBL7044683(CKB)24242993200041(DE-He213)978-3-030-99023-7(EXLCZ)992424299320004120220713d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEscaping the Governance Trap Economic Reform in the Northern Triangle /by Neil Shenai1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,2022.1 online resource (170 pages)Print version: Shenai, Neil Escaping the Governance Trap Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030990220 Chapter 1: From the Northern Triangle to Northern Europe: How Good Governance Can Rescue Central America -- Chapter 2. Economic Reform Priorities and the Governance Trap -- Chapter 3. Enhancing Global Engagement -- Chapter 4. Conclusions and Potential Futures.The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the global economic landscape, with the smallest and most vulnerable economies particularly hard hit. In the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, the crisis has cost lives and livelihoods. It has impacted both the demand and supply sides of the economy, posing difficult policy tradeoffs. Risks to macroeconomic stability are now growing. Each country will likely exit the crisis with an even greater need for reform. Escaping the Governance Trap: Economic Reform in the Northern Triangle provides a framework for understanding the challenges of those three Central American nations, proposing that the lack of governing capacity in each country is a crucial problem. This book argues that economic reforms can help the Northern Triangle countries escape their governance traps and identifies priority areas of economic reform. Sectors covered include fiscal policy, monetary and exchange rate policy, financial access and deterrence, and structural reforms. It also highlights the role that stakeholders like the United States can play to help in these reform efforts, and how those outcomes affect the United States and the global community. All told, Escaping the Governance Trap provides an accessible, direct account of the Northern Triangle's economic challenges and how to fix them. Neil Shenai served as the U.S. Treasury's Financial Attaché to Mexico and Central America from 2016-2018. He is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of Social Finance: Shadow Banking during the Global Financial Crisis (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018). He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. .Development economicsEconomic developmentEconomicsLatin AmericaEconomic conditionsDevelopment EconomicsEconomic GrowthPolitical Economy and Economic SystemsLatin American/Caribbean EconomicsDevelopment economics.Economic development.Economics.Latin AmericaEconomic conditions.Development Economics.Economic Growth.Political Economy and Economic Systems.Latin American/Caribbean Economics.338.9338.9728Shenai Neil1058693MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910584477103321Escaping the Governance Trap2901626UNINA