En este articulo se analiza la logica economica de la politica arancelaria de Brasil durante los primeros dos anos del Plan Real. Con este fin se estudian las modificaciones a las tasas del impuesto de importacion para todos los productos comercializados. El proceso de reforma arancelaria de...

La integracion regional se ha convertido una vez mas en un tema importante para America Latina y el Caribe. Entre las diversas iniciativas de integracion que hoy se estan consolidando en la region, cuatro tienen particular importancia, por el peso de las economias involucradas: el Mercosur, el...

This article compares the Asian and Latin American experiences with monetary cooperation. It is argued that in the latter such cooperation has hardly progressed, due to low degree of regional integration, the recurrent use of multilateral institutional resources to deal with external shocks and...

La informacion disponible revela que el comercio intraindustrial ha alcanzado niveles muy significativos para los paises de America Latina en los ultimos anos. En este trabajo se presentan algunas estimaciones para los anos ochenta. En la primera seccion se compara la tendencia ascendente de su...

This work identifies the main characteristics of trade flows between Colombia and Venezuela with MERCOSUR, with specific discussion of trade with Brazil. It aims at providing a broad view of such trade flows, as well as presenting some descriptive indicators of such trade relationship. A special...

One of the basic features of last decade was the formation of groups of emerging economies, as well as the acceptance of their role as important players in the determination of global growth. Recent years have shown, however, a fall in the rate of growth of these economies. In this article we...