This paper reviews the principal neo-liberal policy measures implemented in Latin America in the last decade and their impact on equity. It first emphasizes the difficulty of separating the repercussions of liberalization measures from the necessary fiscal adjustments of the 1980s, and their...

This paper aims to evaluate the profile of Brazilian trade structure in recent years through a methodology that seeks to assess the relative quality of trade. The paper not only evaluates the quality of Brazilian total exports, but also the exports to ALADI, a region where traditionally...

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...