Seeking Growth Under Financial Volatility

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Macroeconomics-for-Growth under Financial Globalization: Four Strategic Issues for Emerging Economies

   • Ricardo Ffrench-Davis

   Pages 1-32

3. Overcoming Latin America’s Growth Frustrations: The Macro and Mesoeconomic Links

   • José Antonio Ocampo

   Pages 33-59

4. Macroeconomic Stability and Investment Allocation of Domestic Pension Funds in Emerging Economies: The Case of Chile

   • Roberto Zahler

   Pages 60-95

5. Real Macroeconomic Stability and the Capital Account in Chile and Colombia

   • Ricardo Ffrench-Davis, Leonardo Villar

   Pages 96-138

6. Macroeconomic Adjustments and the Real Economy in Korea and Malaysia Since 1997

   • Zainal-Abidin Mahani, Kwanho Shin, Yunjong Wang

   Pages 139-183

7. Macroeconomics in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Real Growth versus Financial Stability

   • Stephen Gelb

   Pages 184-218

8. Back Matter

   Pages 219-227

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This volume deals with macroeconomic issues and their relation with economic growth. Frustrating GDP growth has been a lasting feature of Latin American economies since the 1980s. Analyzing the policy measures that were taken in a bid to avoid costly mistakes and recover economic growth, this volume examines existing reforms and suggests areas of policy change to achieve macroeconomics for growth.

• economic growth
• globalization
• growth
• macroeconomics

• University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

  Ricardo Ffrench-Davis

• Central Bank of Chile, Chile

  Ricardo Ffrench-Davis

STEPHEN GELB Executive Director, the EDGE Institute and Visiting Professor in Development Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa JOSÉ LUIS MACHINEA Executive Secretary, Executive, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Chile ZAINAL-ABIDIN MAHANI Professor, University of Malaysia, Malaysia JOSÉ ANTONIO OCAMPO Under-Secretary for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, New York, USA KWANHO SHIN Professor, Korea University, Republic of Korea LEONARDO VILLAR Member, Board of the Central Bank of Colombia and Professor of Economics, University of Los Andes, Colombia YUNJONG WANG Vice President, Economic Research Office, SK Research Institute for SUPEX Management, Republic of Korea ROBERTO ZAHLER President, Zahler & Co., Chile

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