Suchergebnisse

Introduction : can Latin America compete? / John Price and Jerry Haar -- The macroeconomic environment of competitiveness / Claudio Loser -- Building human capital : is Latin American education competitive? / Jeff Puryear and Tamara Ortega Goodspeed -- Competitive capital markets : Brazil's capital markets finally maturing / John Welch -- Consumer & small business credit, building blocks of the middle class / Jan Smith, Tricia Juhn, and Christopher Humphrey -- Closing the technology gap / Peter Knight and Rosane Marques -- Fostering innovation : technological innovation in urban clusters / Isabel Bortagaray and Scott Tiffin -- Return on infrastructure investment : focus on water / Lee Tablewski -- Logistics & transport services / Marcio Stewart -- Legal reform : some emerging paradoxes of Latin America's legal and judicial reform movement / Linn Hammergren -- Property, the rule of law, and development in the Americas / Peter Schaefer and Clayton Schaefer -- Tax reform : tax policy, reform, and competitiveness in Latin America / Mauricio Carrizosa -- Labor reform : under competitive economies and unprotected workforce / Christopher Sabatini -- Regulatory reform : increasing competitiveness through regulatory and investment climate improvements in Latin America : the case of Mexico / Luis Guasch and Benjamin Herzberg -- Public safety : the cost of living dangerously / John Price -- Lessons learned and looking forward / Jerry Haar and John Price

Is the fall in overall productivity growth in the United States and other developed countries related to the rising share of the service sectors in the economy? Since services represent well over half of the U.S. gross national product, it is also important to ask whether these sectors have had a slow rate of growth, as this would act as a major drag on the productivity growth of the overall economy and on its competitive performance. In this timely volume, leading experts from government and academia argue that faulty statistics have prevented a clear understanding of these issues

Introduction -- The borders -- The president -- The cops -- The technocrats -- The scapegoat -- The consequences -- The triage -- The fence -- Conclusion