Within a conceptual frame of territorial endogenous development, it shows an explanation of the economic development in the North-East of Uruguay. In order to analyze the economic activities in the territory three important dimensions are pointed out: innovative and competitive dynamics; the...

The main feature of the history of livestock production in the period refers to the stagnation of the productive capacity of the natural prairie, evident in the stability of the cattle stock throughout the period and the stop of the cattle’s slaughter since 1930. This paper discusses the...

This paper brings a global approach to the principles characteristics of the monetary policy in the period 1931-1959 and its changes related to the national and international context. Two were the most important transformations. On one hand, the increasing role of the Republic Bank of Uruguay...

In this paper the Uruguayan public indebtedness from 1905 to 1939 is estimated. The timeframe covers a particular historical period characterized by the end of the “civil wars”, the consolidation of the political power of batllists and the settlement of agreements in order to restore the...

This paper explores the distributional impacts associated with the formation and management of the Exchange Difference Fund in Uruguay during the period 1937-1959. Under the economic crisis of the thirties and the implementation of mechanisms to cope with it, the government assumed the control...

The following article presents new econometric evidence on comparative behavior between worker cooperatives and capitalist firms, identifying differences in wage and employment responses. We exploit a comprehensive panel data set that covers the universe of cooperatives and their capitalist...

Although the Uruguayan participation in world trade was insignificant, the external sector had a crucial role in the national economy of such a small and open country. On the one hand, the country's economic growth depended on livestock exports, on the other, continued state funding was...

From a review of various theoretical approaches with an endogenous and territorial explanation of the development process is found evidence about economic development of a region depending on the interaction of four key factors: innovation, organization of production, urban agglomeration...

Regional integration is under discussion nowadays. In 1991, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay created the MERCOSUR regional bloc, which was fully consolidated in 1995. The stabilization problems suffered by the region since 1999, asymmetry problems inside the bloc, the growth of...

This paper discusses the process of implementing income taxes in Uruguay during the period 1961-1973. The study examines the failure of a previous implementation in the twenties, detailing the positions of the various political parties which tended to appear again during the parliamentary debate...