Can Latin America Compete?

1. Introduction: Can Latin America Compete?
John Price, Jerry Haar

2. The Macroeconomic Environment of Competitiveness
Claudio M. Loser

3. Coveting Human Capital: Is Latin American Education Competitive?
Jeffrey M. Puryear, Tamara Ortega Goodspeed

4. Competitive Capital Markets: Brazil’s Capital Markets Finally Maturing
John H. Welch

5. Consumer and Small Business Credit: Building Blocks of the Middle Class
Jan Smith, Tricia Juhn, Christopher Humphrey

6. Closing the Technology Gap
Peter T. Knight, Rosane A. Marques

7. Fostering Innovation: Technological Innovation in Urban Clusters
Scott Tiffin, Isabel Bortagaray

8. Not All Infrastructure Is Created Equally: Learning from the Best Practices and Stunning Failures of Latin American Water Infrastructure
Lee M. Tablewski

9. Logistics: The Software That Drives an Economy
John Price

10. Legal Reform: Some Emerging Paradoxes of Latin America’s Legal and Judicial Reform Movement
Linn Hammergren

11. Property, the Rule of Law, and Development in the Americas
Peter F. Schaefer, P. Clayton Schaefer

12. Tax Reform: Tax Policy, Reform, and Competitiveness in Latin America
Mauricio Carrizosa

13. Labor Reform: Undercompetitive Economies and Unprotected Workforce
Christopher Sabatini

14. Regulatory Reform: Increasing Competitiveness through Regulatory and Investment Climate Improvements in Latin America; the Case of Mexico
José Luis Guasch, Benjamin Herzberg

15. Public Safety: The Cost of Living Dangerously
John Price

16. Conclusion: Lessons Learned and Looking Forward
Jerry Haar, John Price

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Latin American Culture, Development Economics, Political Economy, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, International Economics, International Relations