This article concerns Mexico's industrial policy and economic performance, focusing on an analysis of the structural changes associated with NAFTA that have occurred in the country's manufacturing sector. The purpose of the article is to improve our understanding of why the post-NAFTA evolution...

Between 1998 and 2002 Mexico was host to an intense debate over dollarization. This paper examines the conjunctural factors which led to the emergence of this debate, reviews the main participants in the debate and their arguments, and discusses why the debate ended. We further argue that the...

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...

Introducción Los intentos de integración regional en Centroamérica y los objetivos que los han motivado son de larga data. J. Rufino Barrios, presidente de Guatemala a fines del siglo XIX, argumentó a favor de la llamada Unión Centroamericana, utilizando, entre otras, razones similares a...

This paper analyzes Raúl Prebisch's less familiar contributions to economic theory, related to the business cycle, and heavily informed by the Argentinean experience. His views of the cycle emphasize the common nature of the cycle in the center and the Latin American periphery as one unified...

Resumen Luego de los procesos de ajuste de la década de los ochenta, Centroamérica inició una etapa de pacificación regional y liberalización comercial tendiente a integrarla en su esfera geográfica 'natural' (América del Norte). Los esfuerzos de integración extrarregional avanzaron con...