La nueva generación de estándares de sostenibilidad para la minería, muchos de ellos aún en desarrollo, dan un tratamiento más integral a las temáticas ambientales y sociales, ampliándose hacia aspectos tales como las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero, los impactos sobre la...

This paper applies an agnostic structural vector autoregression (SVAR) approach to study the response of four Andean economies (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru) to international shocks. More specifically, we look at the response of gross domestic product, the real exchange rate, fiscal and...

"Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, but its benefits, including economic gain, are not felt by the majority of the country's inhabitants. distributed evenly. The Living Inca Town provides a rich case study of tourism in Ollantaytambo, a rapidly developing destination in the...

This paper studies the pro-poor growth in the Latino American Andean countries. We first present different definitions of pro-poorness and the related methods in order to generate the statistically robust results for classes of pro-poor measures. Also, we present the non anonymous pro-poor...

"This book uses a multi-method approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies experience in this context. Mining is a major component of economic growth in many resource endowed...

"This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom. While mega-dams, highways and...

This article studies the symmetry in reactions of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) economies to external shocks in order to analyze the group's evolution towards economic integration. The undertaking of a Monetary Union project in South America enhances the usefulness of evaluating shocks...

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was established in 1967 with one of its central purposes being the acceleration of economic growth in the region. As outlined in the ASEAN Vision 2020 charter, which was agreed to by ASEAN member countries in 1997, the centerpiece of this...

In 1970, the countries of the Andean Common Market (the Andean Pact or ANCOM), adopted uniform foreign investment regulations. The Andean Foreign Investment Code, as Decision 24 of the Andean Commission is called, regulates both the treatment of foreign capital entering or within ANCOM, and...

Not only the colonial period, but also the pre-colonial times might have influenced later development patterns. In this study we assess a potential "pre-colonial legacy" hypothesis for the case of the Andean region. In order to analyze the hypothesis, we study the human capital of Inca Indios,...