Mutuals are institutions belonging to the Social Economy sector. They are private associations that form part of Complementary Social Welfare Systems, and they are well established in the European Community. In Spain, since they were included in the Law on Private Insurance of 1984, they no...

In 1972 SEAT was the first Spanish industrial firm and led the export of automobiles, thanks to a nationalist policy. However, the industrial policy of late Francoism experienced a dramatic change with the approval of Ford’s decrees. Such a change included the invitation to General Motors to...

Three periods could be found in the development of automobile industry in Uruguay since the seventieth: the first with the production oriented to the local market as result of import substitution policies; the second (since the nineties and regional integration) where automobile production was...