This paper is an introduction to the re-publication of a 1895 report written by N.P. van den Berg, the president of the Java Bank in colonial Indonesia, for the government of British India. The report explains the system of monetary stabilisation and the change to a gold-exchange standard put in...

From marginal relevance, the trade and business relations between Latin America and Australia have grown during the past two decades. A proximate reason is that they diversified to encompass a greater range of manufactures and services. Differences in the business environments of Latin America...