08 September 2013 |
Latin America falling in global index
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Mass media -
News Sala i Martín
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StabroekNews.com
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Tags: America | Competitiveness The World Economic Forum’s ranking of competitiveness released this week confirms what many of us feared: Latin America is losing ground in the global economy and is doing very little about it. [...] Xavier Sala-i-Martin, a well-known economist at Columbia University and a leading author of the WEF Global Competitiveness Report, told me that “in Argentina and Venezuela, the problem is not just excessive state control of the economy, but bad state control of the economy." [...]
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