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The paper is organized as follows. The next section presents some stylized facts on Mercosur, documenting the evolution … smaller Mercosur economies vulnerable to macroeconomic developments in Brazil. The subsequent section presents the main …
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While Latin America accounts for approximately 7 percent of the world economy, easily accessible information on the economies of the region is not always easy to find. The existing literature on Latin American economics usually assumes some previous familiarity with the region and is focused on...
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- PART I THE SETTING -- I. Evolution of Economic Systems -- II. Population, Income, and the Allocation of Productive Effort -- PART II ORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION -- III. Agriculture and Land Tenure -- IV. The Mining Industry -- V. Transportation -- VI....
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, Paraguay and Uruguay to show that trade and foreign investment have increased since its formation in 1991; and compares the …Outlines the development of Mercosur (South American economic bloc) and considers the assertion that it protects … inefficient Brazilian industries and has failed to create extra trade. Analyses selected 1990‐1997 data for Brazil, Argentina …
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-- Chapter 5 Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Uruguay -- Chapter 6 The Laggards: Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela -- Chapter 7 … -- Chapter 2 A Brief Economic History -- Chapter 3 What is “Wrong”: The Usual List of Suspects -- Chapter 4 Argentina and Brazil …
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This third Annual Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) focuses on trade liberalization policy, specifically "open regionalism," a term coined to describe the fact that 1) regionalism has gone hand in hand with unilateral trade opening:statistics on tariff and...
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Latin America, particularly MERCOSUR region, faces an extraordinary expansion of global demand, partially originated in … (MERCOSUR) exports in world trade by industry (i.e. food and agro energy products) seems to be a driver for local (Uruguayan …
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Uruguay is a country with a very unusual profile, since it has just 3.4 million inhabitants but is among the top ten … the seventh troop contributor to the UN, and by the end of 2005 it was eighth in the UN ranking. Uruguay has never had any …
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