Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Americas, South"
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A Comparison of Product Price Targeting and Other Monetary Anchor Options, for Commodity Exporters in Latin America
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Seven possible nominal variables are considered as candidates to be the anchor or target for monetary policy. The context is countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), which tend to be price takers on world markets, ... -
Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Career Civil Service Systems in Latin America
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Patronage—the discretionary allocation of public sector jobs—continues to be a dominant way government is staffed in most Latin American countries and it is proving resistant to the imprecations of public sector reformers. ...