This chapter discusses Colombia and Venezuela's main trade policy reforms and institutional adjustments resulting from the Uruguay Round Agreements. Its analysis resorts to the Andean Community trade policy framework and selects issues and sectors of particular importance for both countries,...

Abstract: High inequality has long been regarded as one of the main problems facing Latin American countries. To understand better the determinants of inequality and to help guide thinking about policy options, it would be useful to know whether inequality mainly reflects low intergenerational...

"A myriad of empirical studies show that countries with high levels of corruption have lower groth rates. Few studies, however, have looked at the implications of corruption for the porspects of firms. This paper aims at filling this void by studying the effects of corruption upon the economic...

INTRODUCTION. Within the Latin American context Colombia is in a relatively advanced stage in terms of decentralization. According to the IDB (1997), it ranks third in the region after Argentina and Brazil, two countries organized as Federal States. While in 1995 average public expenditure...

La legislación colombiana sobre patentabilidad de medicamentos se rige por la Decisión 344 de la Comunidad Andina de Naciones, vigente desde 1994. Por su parte, la legislación internacional para los países miembros de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) se rige por el Acuerdo sobre...