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...

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on research emerging from the late 2000s onward, with an emphasis on empirical work considering new mechanisms, studying new dimensions of inequality, and developing new...

Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy, but its footprint remains relatively modest. This chapter in a forthcoming book documents the extent to which Brazil's economy remains fairly inward-looking and isolated from global markets, despite the...

This paper makes a comparison between official dollarization and the classic gold standard by studying the effects of both on trade. Under this scheme, I have been able to assess the cases of Ecuador and El Salvador: two contemporary examples of official dollarization. In the case of Ecuador, it...

Knowledge, the multinational firm, and the free flow of financial capital seem to be the new and perhaps leading actors in the emerging 21st century global economy. From a comparative basis and relating this variables we attempt in this paper to study and explore what we consider are basic...

This publication brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, first published in 2001 and The World Economy: Historical Statistics, published in 2003. This new edition contains Statlinks, a service providing access to the underlying data in...