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: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Theories and Evidence of Financial Vulnerability -- Chapter 3: Building a Financial Vulnerability Model -- Chapter 4: Socio-Cultural and Economic Institutions at the Local Level -- Chapter 5: The Household as Financial Manager -- Chapter 6: Markets and...

This book highlights the economic and social science perspectives in light of COVID-19. During 2020, leaders found themselves at historic crossroads, taking decisions under remarkable pressures and uncertainties. However, windows of opportunity are being created to shape the economic recovery,...

The Macroeconomy: Foreign Trade, Structural Transition and the Environment -- Health and Standard of Living -- Education, Human Capital and Evolution of the Employment Quality in India -- Banking and Credit: Access, Efficiency and Stability.

Stellen Sie sich vor, ein demokratischer Staat muss ein komplexes Problem lösen. Der Lösung muss eine Mehrheit der Bevölkerung zustimmen. Es stehen zwei Lösungen zur Wahl: Eine komplizierte, die schwer zu verstehen ist, das Problem aber löst und eine einfache, die leicht verständlich...

The relation between structural reform and macroeconomic policy underlies the widespread perception that the large European economies have under-performed in the past decade in comparison both with their own standards and with the contemporaneous performance of the United States. This book,...