Bárcena, Alicia
The economic crisis : a major challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean
- 2009
Sees the economic crisis affecting job creation and job quality as well as social spending. Suggests that key policies for battling the crisis will include pro-employment policies, transfers to poor and vulnerable groups and educational and health policies that prevent the loss of human capital. Suggests also that in order to confront the current crisis, there has to be a domestic and international political and policy turning-point.