City Limits; Productivity in Latin America  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8746 (Aug. 2011), page 29-30.
Topik: Regions; Cities; Problems; Economic Development; Urban Planning

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Until the 1970s, Latin America's big cities led their countries' economic development. Some medium-sized cities--such as Curitiba and Florianopolis in Brazil, Toluca and Merida in Mexico and Medellin in Colombia--are starting to show more dynamism than the urban behemoths. That is partly the healthy consequence of liberal economic reforms in the 1980s and 1990s. According to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute, congestion, housing shortages, pollution and a lack of urban planning mean that Latin America's biggest cities now risk dragging down their country's economies. Latin America's overall record of productivity growth is poor, thanks to a toxic mixture of burdensome regulation, a large informal economy and a lack of innovation. If cities are exacerbating, rather than mitigating, national ills, this may be because of a lack of urban planning.

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