This article begins with a brief evocation of the main features of the legacy left to us by Raúl Prebisch, not only from the strictly intellectual...
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The method that Celso Furtado used was essentially historical; his
passion -a measured passion- was for Brazil. In the second half of the...
This article gives a comparative description of three different
general structural pension reform models applied in 12 Latin American...
In the light of the extent of global poverty and the challenge
presented by the Millennium Development Goals for its reduction, this article...
Although in Latin America public debt-to-GDP ratios continue to
be generally lower than in other emerging countries, it has nevertheless not...
This article deals with the fiscal and financial relations between the
national government and the provincial governments in Argentina...
Brazil is now one of the most decentralized federative countries in
the world, with the special feature that its decentralization is not the...
This study seeks to answer two questions: how and why has the
distribution of labour income changed in Central America? and why does Costa...
Demographic change in Latin America has been driven by the behaviour of the middle and upper strata. Given that fertility and mortality in these...
In the 1990s, rural development specialists became increasingly interested in rural non-farm employment (RNFE); and the factors determining it....
This paper stems from the debate on food security that has been under way since the World Food Summit of 1996.
It discusses the viability of...
The growth of high-quality employment needed to reduce the share of informal
occupation and open unemployment in Peru will require an...
This article examines the unsuccessful attempts made in the 1990s to introduce a market for water in Peru. This reform was thwarted because market...
International financial institutions are showing a renewed interest in measures to enhance national budget management and strengthen the integrity...
Foreign direct investment (FDI); in developing countries has been
increasing at an unprecedented rate, and the profitability of the
...
The contagion aspects of the financial and exchange-rate crises in
recent years demonstrate the need to extend the domain of macroeconomic...
This article examines the nature and extent of the changes in
Brazilian industry after ten years of economic liberalization. The article...
This article aims to determine whether the geographical pattern
of the external trade of foreign-owned enterprises in Brazil differs
...