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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?…
Authors Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff discuss Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's response to a commentary by Ricardo Hausmann…
Latin American governments, social movements, and regional organizations have made a far greater contribution to the idea and practice of…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are accurate? And…
The comparative advantage of a location dictates its industrial structure. Current theoretical models based on this principle do not take a…
Since the 1980s, there has been a significant rise in domestic and international efforts to enforce individual criminal accountability for…