Volume 2 treats the "long twentieth century" from the onset of modern economic growth to the present. After analyzing the principal dimensions of Latin America's first era of sustained economic growth up to 1930, it explores the era of inward-looking development from the 1930s to the collapse of import-substituting industrialization and the return to strategies of globalization in the 1980s. Finally, it looks at the long term trends in capital flows, agriculture and the environment

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This book brings together the reform experiences of emerging economies and developed countries. Written by leading practitioners and experts in public finance in the context of multilevel government systems, the book examines the interaction of markets, regulators, subnational borrowers, creditors, national governments, taxpayers, ex-ante rules, and ex-post insolvency systems in the quest for subnational fiscal discipline. Such a quest is intertwined with a country’s historical, political, and economic contex

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This second edition consolidates the findings and research compiled in 2006 with key developments and activities that have occurred in the intervening seven years. This edition is intended to build upon the review and finding of the first edition, rather than supplant them, so that much of that material in that first edition is preserved in this publication. Like the first edition, this study seeks to advance understanding of thenexus between development and human rights through a systematic consideration of donor approaches

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