Today, the world is in an evident disarray; many things seem to have gone wrong at once. Various topics: terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, black accounts; financial crises, income distribution, global coordination; or the social angriness and growing anti-migration...

The paper analyzes the globalization process and its relationship with human development. To fulfil this aim, the nature of globalization in the current world development stage, as well as human development, are explained, as criteria to asses how the benefits of this process may have reached...

Este trabajo investiga y encuentra una influencia positiva de la inversión extranjera directa (ED) sobre la importancia del comercio intra-industrial (CII) en los sectores manufactureros españoles. Los sectores participados mayoritariamente presentan índices de CII superiores a la media y en...

In this paper we used a model of New Economic Geography (NEG) to simulate the effects on industrial location in Uruguay for the implementation of alternative trade policy and infrastructure policy. The exercises show that a reduction of non-tariff barriers with Argentina reduces the location of...

Este artículo estudia los efectos que una apertura global al comercio exterior tiene sobre la productividad a nivel de empresa y a nivel de industria en un entorno donde existen diferencias intersectoriales en niveles de competencia inicial. Los sectores menos competitivos sufren mucho más la...

Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in Peru was substantial in his beginnings, in the 60s and 70s, and has been decreasing unable to achieve sustainable levels as Japanese investment in Asia. Using the development concepts of “flying geese-pattern” model, and explaining the singular business...

One theme that has not been resolved within NAFTA is the issue of cargo transportation. This activity is predominant in US and Mexican commerce and has been carried out by a number of enterprises in both countries. The study seeks to discuss the urgent need to dismantle obstacles to cargo...

This book focuses on the historical analysis of the main economic and social transformations of Valle del Cauca in the last 25 years. With a wide and diverse statistical information, the results of the Valley are evaluated against those registered by the main departments of the country. An...

The current research analyzes the main variables that explain the bilateral flow's behavior of foreign direct investment. This document is emphasized on the landlocked countries, a geographic variabel which is present in almost 25 percent of all countries. The research is built through a panel...

The objective of this paper is to measure, through econometric techniques, the existence of trade spillovers from Transnational Corporations present in Uruguayan’s manufacturing sector in 1990-2000. The principal conclusions are that the export behavior of TNC affiliates is more significant...