part 1. International dissemination of economic ideas -- part 2. Protectionism and free trade in the nineteenth century -- part 3. Ideas from abroad -- part 4. Doing political economy in Latin America -- part 5. Nationalism and economic development in Latin America.

The paper aims to communicate to the Latin American audience both factual evidence regarding the Asian experience, and the possible implications of this historical legacy for contemporary Latin American economic development strategies.

The paper looks at the relative importance of reforms in different regions and corresponding trade performance.

This paper compares the experience of growth performance and macroeconomic adjustment between East Asia and Latin America from 1970 to 2000.

This paper tries to untangle the causes behind the recent real exchange rate overshooting events with particular attention paid to the Sudden Stop of capital flows, and also to the comparison across the two emerging markets, Asian and Latin America. We examine whether the sudden stop of capital...

We analyze empirically whether the emergence of China as a large recipient of FDI has affected the amount of FDI received by Latin American countries.

This paper seeks to explore aspects of a possible scenario of parallel 'trade blocs' using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to estimate the effects of an East Asian 'trade bloc' and the FTAA on each other, and on the rest of the world.

This paper examines current industrialization in the two regions from a comparative perspective.

We begin with a brief overview of Chilean firms responses to the globalization pressures originated by the economic liberalization in Chile since 1975 and in the rest of Latin America since 1985. One of these responses was the rise of Chilean outbound foreign direct investments across Latin...