This article examines two of the major water legal regimes in the Americas - that of Brazil and the United States. Both countries have extensive wet and dry regions and both hydro-regimes face a significant threat from global warming. Brazil, for instance, is home to between eight and fifteen...

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...

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...

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...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo investiga la relación entre el despojo de tierras a los campesinos y el origen del conflicto civil en Colombia. Usando un enfoque de variables instrumentales con efectos fijos de pares de vecinos mostramos que el despojo histórico de las tierras de los...

This paper provides an overview of the failure of Argentina to benefit long term from export led development in the early and middle decades of the last century. Despite being well positioned to take advantage of significant breakdowns in the international economic system Argentina largely...

"Cuba at a Crossroads" reflects Daniel Bruno Sanz's uncommon vision of Cuban development. His book is the first complete and detailed analysis available on the conterproductive and futile U.S. embargo on Cuba

Artykuł ocenia rzeczywisty stopień wpływu stosowanych narzędzi polityki gospodarczej na poziom wzrostu i rozwoju w państwach o podobnym wyposażeniu kulturowym i instytucjonalnym. Wybór Barbadosu i Jamajki, dwóch krajów leżących w tym samym regionie geograficznym i do pierwszej połowy...

Spanish Abstract: Este escrito describe y analiza el proceso histórico colombiano relacionado con la colonización de baldíos entre 1850 y 1910, a partir de su dinámica de desarrollo y formación en permanente conflicto social a través de los años, con sus implicaciones económicas,...

Spanish Abstract: Al usar el criterio de los bienes sociales primarios para evaluar el estilo de desarrollo colombiano se puede concluir que su tendencia es la de una senda rawlsiana inversa, cuyas principales características son: estrechez del mercado y sesgo anticampesino. Este artículo...