La tesis de este articulo es que el desarrollo acelerado de America Latina y el Caribe, una region rica en recursos naturales, dependera de la rapidez con la que aprenda a industrializar y a procesar sus recursos, asi como a desarrollar las actividades proveedoras de insumos, servicios de...

Attempts to "civilize" the exploitation of natural and mineral resources are globally promoted. The body of rules and regulations -often the outcome of prolonged socio-environmental and political struggles- is impressive. However, the outcomes of their implementation are much less convincing....

"This book investigates the many ways in which industrial capitalist agriculture has penetrated and transformed contemporary Latin America. Using a range of case studies from across the region, the book considers the socio-economic, political and ecological implications of the agro-industrial...

This paper studies the impact of natural resource extraction in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) from a number of angles. First, we exploit a novel dataset on the universe of giant oil and gas discoveries in the region to trace out the cyclical response of macroeconomic variables to...