Como el Brasil ha sido una de las economias de mas rapido crecimiento del mundo, el estudio de sus aspectos ecopoliticos viene a dilucidar las dimensiones esenciales del debate sobre el desarrollo y el medio ambiente, y suministra conclusiones importantes para los politicos y los cientistas...

Para que se pueda evaluar, desde un punto de vista sociopolitico, la evolucion reciente del endeudamiento latinoamericano y, en particular, la vinculacion crucial entre deuda y medio ambiente, se hace necesario precisar, en primer termino, el entorno socioeconomico de esta evolucion. Las...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SOME STYLIZED FACTS -- III. DETERMINANTS OF PRIVATE INVESTMENT -- IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- APPENDIX: A CANONICAL MODEL OF CORPORATE INVESTMENT -- References.

Private sector investment has been a key source of growth in Malaysia over the last three decades, but after an unprecedented decline in the wake of the Asian crisis it has remained sluggish in recent years. Using aggregate and firm-level data, this paper aims to explain these trends and their...

This paper considers the implementation challenges facing the Basel Committee's new proposals on bank capital standards. When compared with the existing Capital Accord, the proposals represent a shift across two intersecting dimensions-regulatory versus economic capital, and rules-based versus...