Interdependence, collective identities and common institutions are the preconditions for the evolution of a pluralistic security community. While the interaction of the states of Southern Latin America already meets the first two criteria, this article focuses on the third one, particularly the...

The rapid advance of digital technologies and their increasingly cross-cutting applications have driven global transformations that are affecting the entire economy and all of society. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic marked a turning point in terms of how widely digital solutions are...

Whether People's Republic of China can maintain a dynamic growth in coming decades is important not only for the Chinese people but also many other countries in the world. This paper will examine the potential of PRC's future growth, the reform necessary to tap into that potential, the impact of...

This paper tries to untangle the causes behind the recent real exchange rate overshooting events with particular attention paid to the Sudden Stop of capital flows, and also to the comparison across the two emerging markets, Asian and Latin America. We examine whether the sudden stop of capital...

We analyze empirically whether the emergence of China as a large recipient of FDI has affected the amount of FDI received by Latin American countries.

The main contribution of the paper is to provide a framework within which the impacts of China's economic expansion on poverty in other developing countries can be analysed. It then applies this framework to twelve countries, six in Asia and six in Latin America, which between them account for...

Preliminary estimates by the IDB indicate that the growth of Latin American exports in 2004 will be the highest in the last two decades, reaching 23 percent.

This paper explores the competitive threat posed by People's Republic of China (PRC) to Latin America and Caribbean (LAC). It focuses on the impact of PRC's rise as a major exporter of manufactures, but it also considers bilateral trade between LAC and PRC.

The purpose of this document is to inform Bank staff and other interested parties about recent developments in integration and trade among the countries of the Western Hemisphere and between these and other countries and world regions.