Bilateral trade is not a spontaneous phenomenon. While individual agents are the ones who initiate and conduct trade transactions, it is nations that define the conditions under which trade occurs. Recent statistical studies ...

Defining appropriate Intellectual Property (IP) policy is a key industrial and social policy matter for Latin American governments. The IP interests of countries in Latin America may differ substantially from comparable ...

The swift expansion of developing Asia is probably the most significant structural change in the world economy of the twenty-first century. Latin America, and in particular South America, have strongly benefited from ...

We estimate a dynamic panel data model to assess the relationship between different levels of instability—proxied by growth volatility and inflation— and growth in Latin America from 1960 to 2011. Outlying observations ...

By referring to the aesthetics theory developed by the Argentinian philosopher Rodolfo Kusch, this article aims to question the European models of cultural domination based on artistic canons, which still persist in the ...

This document, which is partly based on by the study Impacto de la Infraestructura de la Calidad en América Latina, is a second joint effort by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the ...

How do governments address complex, cross-sectoral problems, like the COVID-19 pandemic? Why were some Latin American countries more successful at containing the pandemic´s most devastating health outcomes? We argue that ...