Social relations involve both face-to-face interaction as well as telecommunications. We can observe the geography of phone calls and of…
Latin American governments, social movements, and regional organisations have made a far bigger contribution to the idea and practice of…
Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
No matter which way you look at it, Chiapas is the most backward of any state in Mexico. Its per capita income is the lowest of the 32…
Some of the best-known papers of Carlos F. DÃaz Alejandro were about Latin America’s crises in the 1980s and 1930s. I will show data,…
The literature on external default has stressed the existence of the so-Âcalled debtÂ-intolerance puzzle: developing nations tend to…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
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Despite recent growing demand from funders and governments, rigorous impact evaluations in Latin America and the Caribbean remain the…
Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have…
Given the importance of financial sector development for sustained economic growth, especially in the context of Vietnam’s own performance…