Before World War I, most foreign investment in Latin America came from Britain. By World War II, however, the United States had become the main and unchallenged foreign investor in the region. This analysis of the negotiations that took place between the British firm (Pearson and Son) and the...

This research attempts to explain the poor performance of the Colombian economy in the world markets during the late nineteenth century. Based on data on exportable production at the municipal level in 1892, coffee production in 1925 and of public land allocation and land conflicts during the...

The free market reforms adopted by Mexico in the wake of the debt crisis of the 1980s and in connection with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have jeopardized the physical and cultural survival of Mexico’s indigenous peoples, increased migration to the United States, threatened...

Post-colonial societies endowed with abundant natural resources often under-perform economically when these resources are exploited as economic enclaves lacking significant linkages to other sectors of the economy. The Panama Canal, a symbol of Panamanian identity and a reminder of Panama's...

Genetically modified (“GMO”) corn germinates legal controversies in México. Since 2013, Mexican courts have temporarily suspended GMO corn because it threatens biodiversity. In the Colectividad del Maíz lawsuit, courts have prohibited México from issuing commercial GMO permits while the...

Spanish Abstract: El propósito de este artículo es mostrar cómo la construcción y operación del Ferrocarril de Antioquia permite analizar, desde el punto de vista de las políticas públicas y de la acción de los empresarios extranjeros, los procesos sociales desde la perspectiva local y...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo describe el mercado de bienes animado por la circulación de oro en polvo en el nordeste de la provincia de Antioquia entre 1789 y 1811. El documento aporta al polémico debate entre quienes sostienen la predominancia de una economía “natural”, o de trueque,...

Transportation infrastructure is associated with economic development, but it can also be used for social control and to benefit the governing elite. We explore the connection between the construction of road networks, state-led repression, and land allocations in the longest dictatorship in...

This paper presents industry-related explanations for the implementation of corporate environmental policies in subsidiaries of transnational corporations. More specifically, it presents the findings from three cases in the Brazilian chemical sector, which were investigated in order to evaluate...

The following is an excerpt from a paper published in the Journal of the Association of Professional Engineers of Trinidad and Tobago by Murray and Furlonge (2009). It examines the potential of using methanol as an alternative fuel for power generation in the Caribbean. Technical and economic...