Latin America: new challenges to growth and stability

Abstract

Latin America: rising to new challenges / Dora Iakova, Sebastián Sosa, and Alejandro Werner -- Potential growth in Latin America / Sebastián Sosa, Evridiki Tsounta, and Hye Sun Kim -- After the boom: commodity prices and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean / Bertrand Gruss -- Commodity price cycles: the perils of mismanaging the boom / Gustavo Adler and Sebastián Sosa -- Terms-of-trade booms: saving-investment patterns and a new metric of income windfall / Gustavo Adler and Nicolas E. Magud -- External conditions and debt sustainability in Latin America / Gustavo Adler and Sebastián Sosa -- Has fiscal policy become less procyclical in Latin America? / Alexander Klemm -- Riding global waves: the impact of external financial shocks on emerging market economies / Gustavo Adler and Camilo E. Tovar -- Global financial shocks and gross capital flows in Latin America / Gustavo Adler, Marie L. Djigbenou, and Sebastián Sosa -- Spillovers to Latin America from the normalization of U.S. monetary policy / Alexander Klemm, Andre Meier, and Sebastián Sosa -- Housing markets in Latin America: do we need to worry about a bubble? / Luis Cubeddu, Camilo E. Tovar, and Evridiki Tsounta