Does Latin American and Caribbean Unemployment Depend on Asian Labor Standards?

• Main Author: Belser, Patrick
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank, Office of the Chief Economist 1998
• Subjects: ddc:330; Argentina; Trinidad; Uruguay; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/87927

Many Latin American nations have recently implemented liberal trade regimes, often as part of a larger set of market-oriented reforms, and have abandoned their industrialization policies based on import substitution. In the 1980s, Chile, Mexico, and Bolivia were among the continent`s first nations t...