Chile is characterized as a country with an extreme concentration of economic activity around Santiago, the administrative capital. Despite this, and in contrast to what is found in most of the industrialized countries, income levels per inhabitant in the capital have been below the country...

In the context of exports expansion, we want to evaluate the ability of natural resource-abundant countries to reduce their dependence on natural resource exploitation in the long run. Specifically, we measure exports diversification in Chile and Norway in order to measure how they responded to...

As a first approach to the comparison between the Andean and the Nordic countries, it is their specialisation on natural resource exportation. But even though both regions exported similar commodities at the beginning of the nineteenth century, how similar were they really? In this article, we...

This book represents a contribution in, at least, three dimensions: quantitative, historical and conceptual. From a quantitative point of view, the volume presents an extensive data set corresponding to 9 countries, 182 regions (states, provinces, departments) and around 14 benchmark years from...

This chapter aims at contributing to the international literature on the long-term evolution of regional inequality by analysing the case of Mexico from 1895 to 2010. Economic differences among Mexican regions are substantial and have been increasing for a long time. The study of the Mexican...

Economic development in Latin America from the end of the nineteenth century shows highly diverse patterns across countries and periods. Argentina, for instance, experienced rapid growth until World War I, following an export-led model, and a relative decline afterwards, whereas economic growth...