English Abstract: Integration processes are a fact within the neoliberal context, and the Puebla-Panama Plan (PPP) is yet to prove its worth as a mechanism to solve social inequality, where the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) have...

The main goal os this paper is to understand on theoretical and empirical grounds the main determinants of China´s long-run economic growth. The historical data analysis suggests a crucial role played by FDI and the exchange rate. The econometric analysis provides empirical support for the...

How does Brazilian private investment respond to increases in the gross tax burden? An econometric investigation. This article aims to offer three contributions to the debate on the recent performance of the Brazilian economy. First, it presents approximate quarterly figures for the Brazilian...

This paper studies the determination of the surpluses of the Brazilian central government. For quarterly data from 1996 through 2011, the empirical strategy included: i) structural break models and nonlinear estimates on the level of public debt, to handle the inertia after 1999, for high levels...