Titlebook: Can Latin America Compete?; Confronting the Chal Jerry Haar (professor of management and internatio Book 2008 Jerry Haar and John Price 200

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Coveting Human Capital: Is Latin American Education Competitive?, quality of its schools. Good education improves workers’ skills; promotes growth; reduces poverty; and provides an important foundation for building the institutions, transparency, and good governance that enable production to happen.

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Fostering Innovation: Technological Innovation in Urban Clusters,nt. While this is well known to managers, regulators, and researchers in developed countries, such is not the case in most of Latin America, as reflected by investment levels, policies, and practices. Interest in innovation, the knowledge of how to manage it, and support for it are all generally low

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Property, the Rule of Law, and Development in the Americas,s the foundation of free, impersonal, contract-based economies in the West. Without property law, entrepreneurship, commerce, and growth are stifled. Were the Latin American states able to create a modern legal environment, their transformation would open enormous new commercial markets with signifi

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Labor Reform: Undercompetitive Economies and Unprotected Workforce,unnecessary ones make Latin America one of the most inflexible labor markets in the world, throttling the private sector’s capacity to increase productiveness and discouraging new investment. On the labor side, the laws have done little good as well. Constraints on formally hiring new employees have