Latin America has a long history of attempts to achieve regional integration, yet success has been modest. This paper contends that this is essentially due not so much to protectionist practices in the various countries, but to the lack of a common currency or, at least, of a tightly managed...

The present paper is a formalization of the critique of the growth with foreign savings strategy that one of its authors has been working on in recent years. Although medium income countries are capital poor, current account deficits (foreign savings), financed either by loans or by foreign...

Contrary to what conventional economic analysis afirms, the main cause of the financial crises in emerging countries during the 1990s, beginning with Mexico (1994) and ending with the crisis in Argentina (2001) was not primarily fiscal, but the decision by governments to foster growth with...