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Micro Lessons for Argentina: In Latin America, Macroeconomic Reform Isn’t Enough

Heinz-Peter Elstrodt, Pablo Ordorica Lenero, Eduardo Urdapilleta  |  Published 2002  |  Economics Sustained Growth Can Be Achieved Only by Removing Microeconomic Barriers to Productivity as Well. Latin America appeared to make substantial progress in handling its macro economy in the 1990s. Following the emerging-market textbook for economic development, the region’s major countries brought down inflation…

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Expanding Bank Outreach through Retail Partnerships – The World Bank

This paper explores the extent to which formal, regulated financial institutions such as banks have been able to partner with “correspondents”- commercial entities whose primary objective and business is other than the provision of financial services.   The paper illustrates the case of Brazil, where banks recently have developed extensive networks of such correspondents. Such…