The measurement of inter-connectedness in an economy using inputoutput tables is not new, however much of the previous literature has not had any explicit dynamic dimension. Studies have tried to estimate the degree of inter-relatedness for an economy at a given point in time using one...

ch. 1. Introduction to the Latin American business environment -- ch. 2. The economic history of Latin America : from independence to the debt crisis of the 1980s -- ch. 3. The business climate in Latin America -- ch. 4. Culture and business -- ch. 5. Economic climate of doing business in Latin...