What can be said of Latin America and the Caribbean's experiment with regional integration? Did it live up to the expectations? What does this experience say about the regional integration agenda moving forward? Do the tectonic changes undergone by the world economy in the last quarter of a...

This study makes a concerted effort to draw attention to a trade agenda that remained largely ignored during the China-LAC trade boom. Mesmerized by epic export gains, both sides of the relationship largely looked the other way when it came to tariffs and non-tariff barriers and, as a result,...

Longitudinal studies are often conducted to explore the cohort and age effects in many scientific areas. The within cluster correlation structure plays a very important role in longitudinal data analysis. This is because not only can an estimator be improved by incorporating the within cluster...

A proportional hazard function together with partial likelihood estimation is the most common approach to the analysis of censored data. However, partial likelihood estimation is established on the grounds that the censoring is non-informative. The partial likelihood approach enjoys many good...

Longitudinal studies are often conducted to explore the cohort and age effects in many scientific areas. The within cluster correlation structure plays a very important role in longitudinal data analysis. This is because not only can an estimator be improved by incorporating the within cluster...