I was in Mexico City this week to present a paper for a session on state reform jointly sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, at LACEA (the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association). At a dinner for conference participants I got to sit at the table of president elect Felipe Calderon, […]

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