In today's world, geopolitics is leading the decisions, generating opportunities in a more inclusive globalization for many countries, while at the same time giving rise to a more fragmented economy, with fewer common rules of the game. Therefore, we are witnessing a series of overlapping crises...

In 2023, like most of the economies in its environment, the Galician economy experienced a significant slowdown in its growth rate. Thus, Galician GDP grew by 1.8%, seven-tenths less than in Spain, this growth being not only higher than the European average and the Eurozone but also higher than...

Latin American countries face the challenge of rebuilding their institutional systems, diminished in some of its essential functions as a result of economic reforms and policies implemented, with varying degrees of intensity, in most nations of the region. The identification of the poor results...

The IMF had a coercitive and disciplining role in different eras of Argentina`s economic history. This role became more evident when facing governements that were not so fond of implementing the reforms suggested by the international financial institution but that at the same time strongly...

This paper analyzes the impact of structural reforms in the total factor productivity using plantlevel data for the manufacturing industry in Chile during the period comprised between 1992 and 2005. This is done by exploiting measures of exposure to certain regulations for the various productive...

The pension system is an essential component within social security. Due to several reasons, among which the current international financial crisis and the rapid aging of the population that is happening in many countries outstand, throughout these last few years several reforms have been...

The present work analyzes the different positions of the different political parties in Spain with respect to the new General Law of Budgetary Discipline. In this sense, the paper extracts the relevant information about this law from the different parliamentary debates. First, we elaborate a...

The reorientation occurred in the socioeconomic, politic and institutional development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries, since 80's decade, provoke significant transformations in the regional rural spaces. The socioeconomic bipolarization is one of the most remarkable phenomena in...

This is a crisis like no other. The global economic outlook continues to be uncertain, more than a year after the declaration of the pandemic. Mutations of the virus, deaths and levels of contagion remain a cause for concern, although increases in vaccination rates, technical advances and...

The world economic situation entails a review of the economic integration processes and, subsequently, a return to national economies that were based on a rebound in domestic demand (that is, very supportive of orthodox Keynesianism), inspired by the commitment to income redistribution policies,...