Commodity prices are characterized by boom and bust cycles. In this article, the impact of the commodity boom of the 2000s on Latin American and Caribbean economies is studied by analyzing four categories of commodity exports (agricultural raw materials, fuel, food, ore and minerals) as well as...

El objetivo de este estudio es analizar los diferentes procesos de desagregación temporal y presentar un ejercicio de trimestralización para el PIB de América Latina y el Caribe a través de modelos indirectos con indicadores que permiten obtener estimaciones trimestrales basadas en la...

This paper focuses on the role of "institutions" in the fight against poverty and inequality. Our view of institutions encompasses formal rules designed by polity (including those in the legal and economics sphere such as rules of property rights, contracts and liabilities) as well as informal...