The Inter-American Development Bank and the OECD Development Centre created the International Forum on Latin American Perspectives as an annual meeting place of ideas and strategies from Latin America and from the OECD region. The tenth meeting of the Forum was held in Paris in November 1999 and...

It has been widely believed that resource abundant economies grow less than other economies. In a very influential paper, Sachs and Warner (1997), point out that there is a negative relationship between resource abundance and growth. Two important econometric problems are present in the...

"This paper studies the cycles of investment and expropriation in the contextof the Latin American oil sector. In particular, it provides an explanationfor the state´s difficulties in capturing the oil rents and rationalizes the tendencyof governments to periodically renege on their prior...

A number of countries have recently discovered and are developing oil and gas reserves. Policy makers in such countries are anxious to obtain the greatest benefits for their economies from the extraction of these exhaustible resources by designing appropriate policies to achieve desired goals....

The taxation of non-renewable resources in Latin America : introduction and overview -- The effects of commodity taxation on sector performance -- Towards efficient taxation of minerals : the case of copper in Chile -- Two sectors, two approaches : resource taxation in Peru -- Not all fields are...