"Assesses how regional financial institutions can help developing countries, often at a disadvantage within the global financial framework, finance their investment needs, counteract the volatility of private capital flows, and make their voices heard"--Provided by publisher

"Monograph by an influential academic researcher and policymaker on the opening of the Colombian economy. The author presents a history of the relationship between economic development and protectionism in Colombia, describes the current process of economic opening, and makes a projection about...

This essay analyzes three contributions of Albert Hirschman that are important to understand the Latin American industrialization process.The first are the features of this process vis-à-vis the “late industrialization” cases in the European continent analyzed by Alexander Gerschenkron. The...