Desde 1996, el Instituto para la Integración de América Latina y el Caribe del BID (BID-INTAL) ha publicado la edición anual del Informe MERCOSUR, con el objeto de documentar los aspectos más importantes del desarrollo económico y comercial de esta entidad regional, haciendo un recuento...

The last decade has seen a significant increase in the exports of several Latin American and Caribbean countries to destinations within and beyond the region. The increase in trade links has not, however, been accompanied by a proportional increase in reciprocal investments among the trading...

The last decade has seen a significant increase in the exports of several Latin American and Caribbean countries to destinations within and beyond the region. The increase in trade links has not, however, been accompanied by a proportional increase in reciprocal investments among the trading...

He holds a B. Sc. in Agronomy from the Luiz de Queiroz School of Agriculture, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the School of Economics and Business, University of São Paulo. Since 2007, he has been Director General at the Institute for International Trade Negotiations (ICONE), where he was General...

Doctor in International Economics, University of Paris X. A fellow for the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA), Harvard University. Bs in Economics, Universidad del Pacífico (Peru). Currently the Executive Secretary for the Peruvian Center for International Studies (CEPEI) and...

Since the beginning of this century, the remarkable and prolonged commodity price boom has brought about a drastic change in the regional macroeconomic scenario. This was correlated with the changing nature of the dilemmas faced by the economic policy. For most South American economies, the...

The debate on development strategies in Latin America has been strongly influenced by two concepts in the literature of economics: first, by the hypothesis that a rich natural resource endowment can negatively affect development (“the natural resource curse”), and second, the empirical...