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The China Triangle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The China Triangle

Gallagher traces the development of the China-Latin America trade over time and covers how it has affected the centuries-old (and highly unequal) US-Latin American relationship. He argues that despite these opportunities Latin American nations have little to show for riding the coattails of the 'China Boom' and now face significant challenges in the next decades as China's economy slows down and shifts more toward consumption and services. While the Latin American region saw significant economic growth due to China's rise over the past decades, Latin Americans saved very little of the windfall profits it earned even as the region saw a significant hollowing of its industrial base. What is more, commodity-led growth during the China boom reignited social and environmental conflicts across the region. Scholars and reporters have covered the Chinese expansion into East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australasia, Africa, the US, and Europe.

Uruguay Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Uruguay Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-03-30
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Uruguay Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook

Building Capabilities for Productive Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Building Capabilities for Productive Development

Productive development policies (PDPs) are notoriously hard. They involve a daunting level of technical detail, require public-private collaboration, are in constant danger of capture, and demand time consistency hard to achieve in a politically volatile region. Nevertheless, the potential of PDPs to revitalize the region’s economic performance and spur productivity growth cannot be ignored. This book takes an in-depth look at 17 cases involving productive development agencies from Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica and Uruguay, identifying key features of institutional design and agency-level practices that make success more likely in this difficult policy arena. Careful study of these experiences might help successful productive development policies gain currency across the region. The cases in this book should not be seen as the exceptions that prove the rule of lackluster PDP performance, but rather as examples that demonstrate the rule can be broken.

Barrio Democracy in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Barrio Democracy in Latin America

The transition to democracy underway in Latin America since the 1980s has recently witnessed a resurgence of interest in experimenting with new forms of local governance emphasizing more participation by ordinary citizens. The hope is both to foster the spread of democracy and to improve equity in the distribution of resources. While participatory budgeting has been a favorite topic of many scholars studying this new phenomenon, there are many other types of ongoing experiments. In Barrio Democracy in Latin America, Eduardo Canel focuses our attention on the innovative participatory programs launched by the leftist government in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the early 1990s. Based on his extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Canel examines how local activists in three low-income neighborhoods in that city dealt with the opportunities and challenges of implementing democratic practices and building better relationships with sympathetic city officials.

International Bibliography Of Economics 2003
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 698

International Bibliography Of Economics 2003

First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers and librarians in the social sciences worldwide. Key features * Authority: Rigorous standards are applied to make the IBSS the most authoritative selective bibliography ever produced. Articles and books are selected on merit by some of the world's most expert librarians and academics. * Breadth: today the IBSS covers over 2000 journals - more than any other comparable resource. The latest monograph publications are also included. * International Coverage: the IBSS reviews scholarship published in over 30 languages, including publications from Eastern Europe and the developing world. * User friendly organization: all non-English titles are word sections. Extensive author, subject and place name indexes are provided in both English and French.

Can Duty-drawbacks Have Protectionist Bias?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 42

Can Duty-drawbacks Have Protectionist Bias?

Evidence from Mercosur suggests that eliminating duty drawbacks for intra-regional exports would lead to increased counterlobbying against protection of intermediate products. Without the duty drawback, the common external tariff would have been an estimated 3.5 percentage points (25 percent) higher on average.

Developing Countries In The World Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 634

Developing Countries In The World Economy

Differences in the choices of trade and macro policies, both by developing countries and by developed countries towards developing countries, have been critical in determining the overall performance of developing countries. All too often, the performance of developing countries has not been assessed using appropriately conducted studies. The papers in this book are chosen to bridge this gap and show how a quantitative approach to policy evaluation can help resolve controversies and explain the choice of observed policies.The book brings together carefully selected papers that assess the impacts of various trade and macro policies, by quantifying the policies of developing countries at the m...

China, Latin America, and the Global Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

China, Latin America, and the Global Economy

This book seeks offers accounts of the ways in which Chinese engagement with Latin America will shape the regional and global order with impacts for development, peace, and equity. It also pays close attention to the traditional role played by the USA in the region, how China differs, and the increasingly triangular relationship between the USA, China, and Latin American countries. The contributors analyze various economic dimensions, including trade, infrastructure, and finance, and the historical, sectoral, regional, and national stories seek to change the narrative on China-Latin American relations. In particular, the book argues that there are opportunities for international cooperation to secure gains in the region, but only if the US and China alter their behavior and Latin American countries work collectively and in more coordinated fashion. Together, the chapters offer coherent social science analysis, policy frameworks, and empirical detail to understand and navigate increased Chinese engagement with Latin America.

CEPAL Review No.115, April 2015
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

CEPAL Review No.115, April 2015

Cepal Review is the leading journal for the study of economic and social development issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edited by the Economic Commission for Latin America, each issue focuses on economic trends, industrialization, income distribution, technological development and monetary systems, as well as the implementation of reforms and transfer of technology. Written in English and Spanish (Revista De La Cepal), each tri-annual issue brings you approximately 12 studies and essays undertaken by authoritative experts or gathered from conference proceedings.

Direito Contratual e Convenção de Viena (CISG)
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 564

Direito Contratual e Convenção de Viena (CISG)

  • Categories: Law

A obra reúne artigos de nova geração de autores, já consolidados, que possuem uma visão cosmopolita do direito contratual, talhada por suas experiências internacionais (acadêmicas e profissionais), com uma curadoria de temas que abordam os impactos que a Convenção de Viena para a Compra e Venda Internacional de Mercadorias (CISG), assim como outros instrumentos internacionais, vêm tendo sobre a evolução do Direito Contratual brasileiro, seja pelo aspecto doutrinário, seja em casos concretos judiciais e arbitrais. O trabalho é fruto das atividades desempenhadas junto ao Grupo de Estudos da CISG perante o Comitê Brasileiro de Arbitragem - CBAr e encerra o ciclo dos Organizadores na sua coordenação. Certamente, é uma obra de impacto, que merece ser apreciada.