Latin America and the world economy -- Latin American economic history -- Economic growth and Latin America -- Growth and the environment in Latin America -- Latin America and primary commodities -- Import substitution in Latin America -- Latin American trade policy -- Exchange rate policy --...

Since the formation of the World Trade Organization, the proliferation of regional trade agreements has raised concerns regarding the prospects of multilateral trade liberalization. The objective of this paper is to assess whether trade among member countries (intra-regional trade) contributes...

How do the number of trade partners and the concentration of trade among partners affect the economic growth of a country? We refer to these characteristics as the structure of trade, and explore this question empirically in this study. We find that the structure of trade, independently of the...