This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model...

Within the last 50 years, the Brazilian share of South American power has increased from one-third to one-half of the overall material capabilities in the region. Such a significant change in the regional power structure cannot have gone unnoticed by Brazil's neighbors. The article addresses the...

Chapter 1: Contextualising the Belt and Road Initiative in South America -- Chapter 2: Foreign Policy Analysis: South American Countries’ Foreign Policy towards the BRI -- Chapter 3: Chile and the Belt and Road Initiative -- Chapter 4: Colombia and the Belt and Road Initiative -- Chapter 5:...

Regional economic integration in America / Eduardo Lizano -- Regional integration in Central America : some remarks / Victor Bulmer-Thomas -- The Coimbra Group and integration in Central America / Daniel van Eeuwen -- The prospects for Andean integration / Lois Jorge Garay -- Andean integration...