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?…
Since the 1980s, there has been a significant rise in domestic and international efforts to enforce individual criminal accountability for…
Book abstract: After two decades of relative neglect, fiscal policy is back at the center of the economics research agenda. The fiscal…
What can America learn from countries as faraway and diverse as Bhutan, Chile, Denmark, Nigeria and South Korea? Quite a lot, as it turns…