Crisis and dollarization in Ecuador : stability, growth, and social equity /

Early in 2000, Ecuador, confronted with a serious economic crisis, adopted the US dollar as its national currency, This book examines the conditions that led to this action, describing the repeated cycles of crisis and failed stabilization that fatally undermined confidence in the Ecuadorian sucre....

• Other Authors: Beckerman, Paul Ely, ed, Solimano, Andrés, ed
• Format: Book
• Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2002
• Series: Directions in development
• Subjects: CRISIS ECONOMICA > 1970-2001; DOLARIZACION; CONDICIONES ECONOMICAS; ECUADOR; CRISIS ECONOMICA; DEPRESION ECONOMICA; COYUNTURA ECONOMICA; SITUACION ECONOMICA

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• 1. Crisis and dollarization: an overview / Andrés Solimano
• 2. Longer-term origins of Ecuador's "predollarization" crisis / Paul Beckerman
• 3. Ecuador under dollarization: opportunities and risks / Paul Beckerman and Hernán Cortés-Douglas
• 4. Ecuador: crisis, poverty, and social protection / Suhas Parandekar, Rob Vos, and Donald Winkler
• 5. Gender dimensions of vulnerability to exogenous shocks: the case of Ecuador / Maria Correia
• Tables