00746nam a2200097Ia 450000500170000010000180001724500560003526000090009152005290010058300190062920260716043336.0  aRANIS, Gustav  aWill Latin America now put a stop to 'stop-and-go'?  c1996  aNotes that stop-and-go cycles, where the 'stop' phase of price stability, stable exchange rates and export bonanzas, was regularly followed by the 'go' phases of inflation, depreciating curencies, and collapse of exports, have been a central feature of the Latin American economic landscape.  Argues that the abundance of natural resources and inflows of easy foreign capital have permitted Latin American countries to delay the micro-economic reform that are needed if this region is to be free of these deleterious cycles.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR