ResumenEn el presente documento se realiza un análisis de la contribución de las universidades públicas en el desarrollo económico de América Latina, al identificar los canales que inciden en la innovación y puedan éstos ayudar a robustecer la competitividad internacional de la estructura...

This paper reviews the current status of the international fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism, highlighting the importance of its prevention for economic and financial stability in Latin America and the Caribbean. It synthesizes the recent history of international...

En este documento se examina la evolución de las economías de América Latina en 1990–2011, con el fin de identificar avances, pendientes y retrocesos asociados a las reformas de mercado que se aplicaron, en línea con el Consenso de Washington, y a las políticas económicas que le...

Introduction Since the mid-1980s the Mexican economy has undergone a process of deep economic reform designed to shift away from the more inward-oriented development model that Mexico had followed until then. The main purpose of these reforms was to privilege market mechanisms in economic...

The paper examines the 1947 monetary stabilization in Italy, tracing the domestic and international political dynamics that allowed ideas and theoretical concepts developed within the Bank of Italy to be applied in a successful action to subdue spiraling inflation. The combination of events and...

In Mexico, the recent upsurge of the global food prices have affected, more than proportionately, the most margined sectors of the population. According with the present results, it is possible to conclude that, even though poverty is highly sensitive to a food price increase, the substitution...

The question answered in this work is: How is the welfare of the Lerma-Chapala population affected if the supply of water is reduced for the agricultural sector as it increases Chapala’s lake level? The hypothesis says that: The total volume of water that is removed from the farmers (in...

The purpose of this paper is to study how the choice of environmental standards by governments is affected by the existence of wage incomes when firms' location is endogenous. In developed countries labor is unionized, which allows positive wage incomes to arise. Thus, each government has...

This investigative work was carried out in the Cattle Company Sancti Spíritus belonging to the municipality and county of the same name in him center of island of Cuba and he/she has had as purpose to study and to analyze the organization and use of the work force and the factors that influence...