"This book explores economic growth in Latin America and its impact on the global financial crisis. It explores the social, economic, financial, and political aspects of economic growth in the Latin America region."

'This book presents Latin America's innovation systems in a new theoretical and political light. The focus is upon how innovation processes can become inclusive; a major challenge for the non-egalitarian Latin American countries. The analytical framework combines Amartya Sen's capacity approach...

1. Latin America and the world economy / Dale W. Jorgenson and Khuong Minh Vu -- 2. Technical change and economic growth : some lessons from secular patterns and some conjectures on the current impact of ICT / Carolina Castaldi and Giovanni Dosi -- 3. ICT and productivity growth in Europe : an...

This book brings together analysis on the conditions of agricultural sectors in countries and regions of the world’s peripheries, from a wide variety of international contributors. The contributors to this volume proffer an understanding of the processes of agricultural transformations and...