The article analyses further develops the neo-dependency approach already presented by the same author and looks at recent time series trends in the structure of international capital penetration, international savings, and the dynamics of “unequal transfer” and their effects on social...

With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...

The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to the Monetary Union. Using the information contained in the European Community Household Panel, corresponding to the four first waves. Using the inverse second order stochastic...

The effects of globalization on income distribution within rich and poor countries are a matter of controversy. While international trade theory in its most abstract formulation implies that increased trade and foreign investment should make income distribution more equal in poor countries and...

The paper uses the 1992 household survey for Bulgaria to show poor revenue performance of the income tax structure prevailing in 1992, which did not take into account the underlying distribution of income. The paper shows that Bulgaria can benefit from a much lower and simpler income tax rate...

En esta obra, Alejandro Díaz-Bautista compila una serie de artículos de investigación económica en donde se recogen diversos puntos de vista de los cambios económicos ocurridos durante los últimos tres sexenios en México, que se registraron en la esfera política económica y en...

Uno de los aspectos más controvertidos del debate en el Congreso de la Nación sobre las prórrogas impositivas es el que se refiere al aumento del mínimo no imponible del Impuesto a las Ganancias. Mientras que el Poder Ejecutivo Nacional elevó un proyecto de ley que mantiene el mínimo...