This book provides analytical insights into if and how the targets adopted by the international community are likely to be achieved. A key feature of the analysis is the recognition that most of the MDG targets are endogenously related. These inter-dependencies are crucial not only in analyzing the
Public Policies for Human Development: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America
✍ Scribed by Marco V. Sánchez, Rob Vos, Enrique Ganuza, Hans Lofgren, Carolina Díaz-Bonilla (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 414
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
This book assesses financing strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean, in pursuance of the United Nations' millennium development goals (MDGs) and their achievement in 2015. It looks at how to make public policies more conducive to support sustained growth and reduce the still widespread poverty and inequality in the region
✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Overview....Pages 1-15
Latin America and the Caribbean’s challenge to reach the MDGs: financing options and trade-offs....Pages 17-69
MAMS: an economy-wide model for analysis of MDG country strategies— an application to Latin America and the Caribbean....Pages 71-126
Argentina....Pages 127-158
Bolivia....Pages 159-183
Chile....Pages 185-211
Costa Rica....Pages 213-243
Ecuador....Pages 245-277
Honduras....Pages 279-306
Mexico....Pages 307-327
Nicaragua....Pages 329-364
Peru....Pages 365-385
Back Matter....Pages 387-406
✦ Subjects
Development Economics; Regional/Spatial Science; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
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