Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74256 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 42.2007
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
During the ‘90s most Latin American countries were submitted to neoliberal structural reform policies. Neoliberal policies imposed market supremacy, reduced the State’s role in the economy and deregulated the markets. This paper aims at describing how these policies affected the most important macroeconomic indexes, with special emphasis on Argentina and Mexico, the two countries that suffered most from the economic crises of the ‘80s and ‘90s, and where the neoliberal policies were applied with greater orthodoxy. In spite of a slight improvement in some macroeconomic indexes, in Latin America neoliberalism failed to reduce poverty and unemployment, and was unable to guarantee a fair distribution of the wealth and improve welfare.
Subjects: 
Latin America
Mexico
Argentina
’90s
Neoliberalism
JEL: 
E21
E22
E24
E26
N16
N26
N36
O16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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