Dr Vittorio Corbo gave the 2008 Richard Snape Lecture, 'Latin America in the Global Economy: Challenges and Opportunities', at the Productivity Commission's office in Melbourne, on 18 November 2008.Dr Corbo was Governor of the Central Bank of Chile from 2003 until 2007. His previous positions...

The purpose of this paper is to set the issue of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia in two contexts: the changing geography of economic growth and patterns of trade and investment across the world as a whole, and the accompanying quiet revolution that has taken place in the international...

Migration has occurred in both waves of globalization, but the migration within the 20th century globalisation period has shown to increase capital mobility and international trade. However, international migration remains constrained in the unskilled labour and the poor labour market segments,...

Some middle-income economies, many of which Latin American, have not achieved to make the transition into high-income status for long years and are allegedly trapped in middle-income status. While there is considerable consensus on the proximate causes of this phenomenon, we present a global...

Does enterprise participation in global markets ensure sustainable income growth? Policies have often been designed in the belief that this is true, but competitiveness and participation in international markets may take very different forms, and developing countries do not always benefit. This...

One of the most notable characteristics of the change in governance of the past two decades has been the restructuring of the state, most notably the delegation of authority from politicians and ministries to technocrats and regulatory agencies. Our unique dataset on the extent of these reforms...

The nature of the catching-up process has changed substantially at both the global and local levels over the last decade. The catching up process can no longer be disentangled from the rapid internationalization of science and technology and the globalization of innovation, in which the...

The process of globalization, explained in a variety of dimensions of factors such as capital and production as well as the fiscal problems in the European countries make the debate of tax competition relevant even today. This paper examines how globalization affects financial efficiency, farm...

An increasing proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas in industrializing and developing countries. Recent research shows that per capita emissions in cities like Bangkok, Cape Town or Shanghai have already reached the level of cities like London, New York or Toronto....

Argentina adopted currency type board arrangements to put an end to monetary instability in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries under very different historical circumstances and contexts with very different results. The first currency board functioned within an international system that...