This research analyzes the relationship between a farmers' participation in Nicaraguan supermarket supply chains and the market entries and exit of neighboring farmers. Drawing on insights from the technology adoption literature on learning and experimentation, we incorporate measures of...

This article analyzes policies related to family agriculture in Latin America. Based on case studies in eleven countries, it compares the origins of these policies and the factors of their emergence, their similarities and differences, and their main results and prospects. This comparison shows...

El continente americano se organiza básicamente en torno a cuatro grandes bloques económicos regionales: el Tratado de Libre comercio de América del Norte, La Alianza del Pacífico, el Mercado Común del Sur y la Comunidad Andina. Su papel es hoy fundamental para encauzar la cooperación...

Using panel data analysis, and focusing on export-structure related aspects of the Latin American economies, this paper finds that output fluctuations in Latin America are synchronized with the United States’ business cycle in the period 1961-2012. Moreover, non-primary commodity exporters and...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, integration between countries has increased at supranational level in view of social and economic progress, with major economic blocs making decisions to go beyond national borders. Facing this new reality, South American States also joined in this type of...

Resumen Este trabajo examina el concepto de vivir bien-buen vivir ponderando sus contribuciones y limitaciones. Esta cosmovisión tiene un horizonte normativo más ambicioso que el paradigma del desarrollo, pues apuesta por una concepción de la pobreza y la riqueza que no se reduce a la...

This book presents a new framework for analyzing the political economy of budget processes in Latin America that is based on the following premises: i) the budget process must be considered as part of the overall policymaking process rather than in isolation; ii) budget outcomes cannot be fully...