Economic integration and globalization are expected to promote economic growth and convergence. This article offers a comparative analysis of the pace of development in terms of GDP per capita in 79 economies from 1970 to 2019. Usually, economic convergence literature aims to establish whether...

Se examina el efecto que ha tenido la integracion economica en el desarrollo de los paises del MCCA, ALADI y Comunidad Europea. Los resultados mas importantes son que los paises mas integrados en sus respectivos procesos en la America Latina fueron los que disminuyeron en mayor medida su nivel...

This paper discusses the theoretical arguments in favor of and against economic globalization and, with a view to ascertaining whether Latin America may be able to capture the globalization upside, examines the trends and salient features of Latin America's globalization as compared with that of...

This paper presents a simple theoretical framework to explain variations in income inequality over time and between countries. It also analyses the factors responsible for the widespread rise in inequality during the neo-liberal reforms of 1980-2000 in the fields of trade, foreign direct...