Resumen Las reformas realizadas a inicios de los años ochenta cambiaron la estructura y funcionamiento del sector salud en Chile. Entre los principales cambios se encuentran la creación del Fondo Nacional de Salud; del Sistema Nacional de Servicios de Salud; de las Instituciones de Salud...

Using two standard cycle methodologies (classical and deviation cycle) and a comprehensive sample of 83 countries worldwide, including all developing regions, we show that the Latin American and Caribbean cycle exhibits two distinctive features. First, and most important, its expansion...

Latin American has the longest history of regional integration efforts in the developing world. This paper analyzes the experience of regional monetary cooperation in Latin America over the past three decades. This experience has been overall successful but also uneven, both in terms of country...