Comparing Savings Behavior in Asia and Latin America: The Role of Capital Inflows and Economic Growth

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwan Abdul-Malik Thanoon ◽  
Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Ifeakachukwu Nwosa ◽  
Temidayo Oladiran Akinbobola


1982 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Oppenheimer

In studying the economic growth of Latin America, historians of widely divergent viewpoints have tended to emphasize the role of foreigners in the developmental process. As a result, they have often overlooked the efforts of Central and South American entrepreneurs in mobilizing capital and adopting technology to foster the growth of their countries. Chile is a case in point. Like their counterparts throughout Latin America, mid-nineteenth-century Chilean businessmen have been generally portrayed as the followers of foreign interests that dominated the nation's economy. This interpretation, however, has ignored the activity of Chileans in building railroads and promoting various other sectors of their economy. In this essay, Dr. Oppenheimer offers conclusive evidence that Chilean businessmen, closely linked to government—but not foreigners—dominated the two firms that brought the iron horse into Chile's Central Valley.





2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 768-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah ◽  
Ly Slesman ◽  
Evelyn Shyamala Devadason


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Martínez

Abstract Pedro P. Kuczynski (Peru 2018) and Evo Morales (Bolivia 2019) are the most recent cases in a long list of Latin American presidents who have been forced out of office. We seek to contribute to understanding why some presidents fail to fulfil their terms by analysing the role of an actor overlooked by the extant literature on presidential failures: political parties. We hypothesize a non-linear relation between party institutionalization and the risk of presidential failure. That is, when parties are weakly or highly institutionalized, the hazard of presidential failure is lower than when parties are moderately institutionalized. We test this and other hypotheses with a survival analysis of 157 Latin American administrations (1979–2018). We also qualitatively explore how the occurrence (or non-occurrence) of certain events affects the risk of failure in three countries with different levels of party institutionalization. We find that party institutionalization – as well as legislative support, anti-government demonstrations, presidential scandals and economic growth – significantly affects the risk of presidential failure.



1992 ◽  
Vol 92 (62) ◽  
pp. i ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Leiderman ◽  
Carmen Reinhart ◽  
Guillermo Calvo ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (65) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Cecilia Bermúdez ◽  
Carlos Dabús

This paper reassesses the evidence presented in Levy-Yeyati and Sturzenegger (LYS) (2003) on the relation between exchange rate regimes and economic growth. We use their de facto classification as well as their database, in order to gain robustness and efficiency in the results. We run System GMM estimations. Additionally, we focus on Latin American countries for the period 1974-2004. Differently to LYS, our evidence indicates that exchange rate regimes are not significant to explain economic growth, both in a worldwide sample of countries and particularly in Latin America. However, in this region flexible regimes appear to have more advantages in terms of the role of the determinants of economic growth in relation to the other exchange regimes.



2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ly Slesman ◽  
Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah ◽  
Mark E. Wohar


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 111-115
Author(s):  
Oleg KARPOVICH

. In the XXI century, cardinal changes continue in the financial and economic situation of Latin America. New influential non-regional partners besides the US and the EU, China, Iran, India, Russia, have come to the fore, significantly expanding the range of foreign relations of Latin American and Caribbean countries, which significantly increases the role of Latin America in the international arena. In economic terms, Latin America is experiencing a period of increased international dynamics, characterized by the intensification of intraregional interactions and the search for new non-regional partners and markets.



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