Structural reforms in Latin America: What has been reformed and how to measure it?

Eduardo Lora

No 4287, Research Department Publications from Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department

Abstract: (Available only in Spanish) This document, which is a revision of the original work, describes and measures the progress of structural reforms, using a structural policy index which summarizes the state of progress of policies in the commercial, financial, tax, privatization and labor areas. A parallel article uses this index to evaluate the effect of structural reforms on growth, productivity, and investment in Latin America. The index is directly based on policy variables such as those mentioned. The index compares the state of the various policy areas in a particular country or of each policy between countries. On a scale from 0 to 1, the average index for all the countries and areas of structural policy was at a level of 0. 34 in 1985. By the end of the 1990s, the index had reached 0. 58. This change reveals appreciable progress, but also reflects the fact that there is still an important potential to be exploited.

Date: 2001-12
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (132)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.iadb.org/research/pub_hits.cfm?pub_id=W ... e_name=pubWP-462.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.iadb.org/research/pub_hits.cfm?pub_id=WP-462&pub_file_name=pubWP-462.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.iadb.org/research/pub_hits.cfm?pub_id=WP-462&pub_file_name=pubWP-462.pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Structural Reforms in Latin America: What Has Been Reformed and How to Measure It (2001)
Working Paper: Structural Reforms in Latin America: What Has Been Reformed and How to Measure It (2001)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:idb:wpaper:4287

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Research Department Publications from Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Felipe Herrera Library ().