1. The Particular Colombian Case in Latin America: A Singular Path with the Same Results -- 2. The Price of the Regeneration, 1870-1914: How Colombia Missed the Belle Époque -- 3. The Take-Off, 1914-1929: Coffee, Railways and Regional Divergence -- 4. The Liberal Republic, 1930-1945: Overcoming...

Part I: Introductory Considerations and Research Setting -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research Setting -- Part II: Conceptual Framework -- 3. The Outcome (Criterion Variables) -- 4. Diagnosing Corruption and Prosperity in Europe and the Americas (A) -- 5. Conditions (Predictor Variables): Theories...

1. Crime and (No) Punishment: Business Corporations and Dictatorships -- 2. Business and the Military in the Argentine Dictatorship (1976-1983): Institutional, Economic, and Repressive Relations -- 3. Building the Dictatorship: Construction Companies and Industrialization in Brazil -- 4....

This book features an in-depth comparative study of South American National Development Bank’s governance systems. It explores the relationship between bank governance and performance frameworks, both in terms of financial-economic indicators and development impact. It seeks to observe,...

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Time Use Differences and Similarities between Developed and Emerging Economies in the Americas: Gretchen Donehower, B.Piedad Urdinola, Jorge A. Tovar -- Chapter 2. Home and Market Production Time Use Differentials in Colombia: B. Piedad Urdinola, Jorge A. Tovar --...

Chapter 1. The Land They Found -- Chapter 2. Adapting to a New World -- Chapter 3. Colonial Latin America -- Chapter 4. The First Century of Independence -- Chapter 5. Industrialization -- Chapter 6. Alternatives -- Chapter 7. The Commodity Boom of the 1970s -- Chapter 8. The Lost Decade of the...

Chapter1 Literature Review of Technological Improvement and Transformation of Economic Development Model -- Chapter2 Theoretical Research: Endogenous Growth Model Embedded with Innovation Heterogeneity -- Chapter3 Mechanical Analysis: Technological Improvement and the Transformation of Industry...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The syncretism (the first wave): The first family businesses in the region -- Chapter 3. First migration flows (the second wave): A new culture of family businesses -- Chapter 4. Mapping the formation of the family group (the third wave): From state[1]owned...

Introduction -- Opening of the Vietnamese economy: Achievements and challenges -- Public administration reform: Efforts and reality -- From state to market: Evolving ownership and corporate governance in Vietnam -- Labour and special economic zones -- Vietnamese political economy in an East...

Chapter 1: The Emerging Nigerian Economy -- Chapter 2: Manufacturing Sector in the Nigerian Economy -- Chapter 3: Industrial Development Policies and Strategies -- Chapter 4: The Nigerian Steel Industry: Retrospect and Prospect -- Chapter 5: Resources and Opportunities for Competitive Industrial...