This paper is about understanding the cycle of global copper price booms and busts over Zambia's economic history. We … Zambian governments did not use copper revenues to accumulate productive assets, focusing instead on financing consumption … ringfence and prudently use the mineral revenues from copper mining in building productive capacities remains elusive. Instead …

This paper provides a synthesis of the four papers on the Latin American and Caribbean economies: Brazil, Chile, Costa …

During the 2000s Chile achieved rapid economic growth and improved most labour market indicators: the unemployment rate …

Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time … 1990s, resulting from better economic and social policies in the return to democracy. Nonetheless, Chile still faces … significant challenges to improve development. There must be an active macroeconomic policy focused on the real economy. Chile …

This paper describes the structural transformations that Chile has experienced in the last 50 years and how they have … worrisome and could negatively affect Chile's ability to achieve structural transformations towards higher and more …