Spanish Abstract: Un objetivo de cualquier economía es obtener el mayor bienestar, utilizando los factores de producción eficazmente, tales como: el capital humano, capital físico y los recursos naturales (bosques, la tierra, el agua y los minerales). Partiendo de la hipótesis de la...

Spanish Abstract: La papaya (Carica papaya) es la tercera fruta tropical más consumida del mundo y una de las más importantes económicamente. Los principales productores en América son México, Brasil y Guatemala. El objetivo del estudio es analizar el comercio del fruto mexicano en el mundo...

Este artículo se aleja de las corrientes predominantes como la realista o neo-realista, para preguntarse sobre los actores intervinientes dentro del Estado. Se realiza un detallado análisis sobre la vinculación comercial entre la Argentina y la República Popular de China durante 1991 a 2010....

This paper presents the results of an impact evaluation for the CRIAR program, implemented in rural areas in Bolivia. The objective of this program is to increase the agricultural income and food security of smallholder farmers through productivity gains that result from technological adoption....

This paper presents and evaluates the hypothesis that emerging countries specialized in commodity production are prone to experience non orthogonal commercial and financial shocks. Specifically, we investigate a set of global macroeconomic variables that, in principle, could simultaneously...

Price controls are measures that can significantly affect the sectors subject to such policies. Using a dynamic general stochastic equilibrium model with two types of agents: farmers and city dwellers, calibrated to Bolivia, it is shown that with falling productivity in the agricultural sector,...

There is a growing wave of concern for the embodied carbon in traded goods. One manifestation of that concern is large economies such as the USA and the European Union enacting climate-related trade measures, including border carbon adjustment. This paper reviews more than ten climate-related...

En este estudio se investigan los impactos, tanto económicos como aquellos sobre el capital natural y servicios ecosistémicos, de tres programas de conservación en México. Más precisamente, se analizan el programa de pago por servicios ambientales, el programa para reducir las emisiones en...

This study assesses the impact of the Program for Rural Development and Family Agriculture (PRODAF), a smart subsidies project that benefited the family farming stratum in northeastern Argentina. The evaluation draws on two complementary data sources. The first is a survey of agricultural...