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This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
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The stages leading to modern external growth in Colombia had no historical paragon different with the decade of the twenties where foreign revenues were oriented mainly to satisfy needs of a new expanding market economy. Tariffs didn't comply with a protectionism conventional policy. Instead...
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The purpose of the paper is to identify policy strategies for the implementation of number portability in Central America. It attempts to determine why carriers have generally been opposed to the implementation of this service and what regulators in the region can do to allow for the provision...
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This paper considers the degree to which Venezuela was able to exercise autonomy in foreign political and economic spheres over a 60 year period from the 1930s to the 1960s. An oil rich but relatively weak state, Venezuela succeeded, over time, in carving out increased levels of economic...
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Beginning in the mid-1990s, Cuba embarked upon a transformation of the agricultural sector that has been hailed by some observers as a model of socially equitable and ecologically sustainable agriculture. Cuba shifted from an export-oriented, chemical-intensive agricultural development strategy...
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This paper sheds light on privatisation as a global phenomenon rather than a forced policy on particular segments of the world. A simple and comprehensive review of literature about the privatisation across the world exhibits that privatisation has been implemented for different reasons....
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The state of anomie that has characterised and still characterises most Latin American countries, resulting from the fragmentation of the social fabric, has encouraged the rise of successful personalist leaderships in the '90s. This paper aims at investigating how neopopulism developed in Latin...
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During the 20th century, the evolution of the biological standard of living in Colombia was a tropical success story from the point of view of the secular increase in height as well as the reduction of inequality. During the period 1905-1985 the average height of females and males increased by...
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This article updates the discussion of the fiscal situation of the Central Government in Brazil. It is shown that, between 1988 and 1995, the National Treasury revenues increased almost 3% of the GDP. Consequently, during 1990/95, the Central Government exhibited a small surplus of 0.1% of the...
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The paper presents an analysis of regional income inequalities in Brazil for the period 1939-1990, based on a data set arranged by the author. Traditional measures of inequality, such as the dispersion of per capita income, are presented together with other measures commonly used in the New...
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