This study addresses a key challenge: to analyze the current coordination of the Bioceanic Road Corridor initiative to promote infrastructure integration and cooperation between the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, the Paraguayan Chaco, the NOA regions of Argentina and the ports of northern Chile by...

Motivated by several factors as the strong growth of Brazilian international commerce, the recover of public and private investments on economic infrastructure, and the good feedback granted by the Texto para Discussão, n. 1.164 of 2006, we decided to redo that Texto para Discussão, updating...

This paper argues that the Brazilian economy went recently through a process of accelerated growth driven by exports and fixed capital formation. Although the pace of growth was more robust than in the 1990 decade, we can still see the presence of macroeconomic constraints to its continuation in...

This study analyses how the set of products Brazil exported to the United States was similar with that of China between 2000 and 2008 and also compares the quality and variety of their exports. Using product-level import data from United States, this study estimates the export similarity,...

This paper intends to compare the technological intensity of Latin American and South-Southeast exports in the last three decades. In this period exports from Asian countries increased at a much higher speed than the one observed in Latin American countries. The main reason was the higher and...

This paper describes the process of trade liberalization in the telecommunications industry implemented from the mid-1990s and examines how such a measure, which allowed foreign capital an important role in the control of operators, associated with the privatization program affected the...

Despite the strong growth of the Latin American foreign trade in the 2000s, the integration of these countries in the global production and trade networks is relatively weak, what largely reflects these countries' specialization on goods intensive in natural resources. In general, the share of...