States' governance of gender is not unidirectional. In addition to 'stagnation' and 'progress', there can be an active reversal of rights already granted to women. Using the case of abortion rights in El Salvador, this paper investigates the following questions: What are the likely causes of...

The state of anomie that has characterised and still characterises most Latin American countries, resulting from the fragmentation of the social fabric, has encouraged the rise of successful personalist leaderships in the '90s. This paper aims at investigating how neopopulism developed in Latin...

The role of the agricultural sector during the ISI period and the debate about the agricultural wage and the living conditions of the farm workers have a long historiography. But until today there is little information about workers' income in the long run. In this paper we want to reflect about...

The role of the agricultural sector during the ISI period and the debate about the agricultural wage and the living conditions of the farm workers have a long historiography. But until today there is little information about workers’ income in the long run. In this paper we want to reflect...

Recent research links the inequality across countries and regions to colonial institutions. This paper argues that trade shocks could alter the development path of a country or subnational units, in spite of its colonial institutions. This hypothesis is analyzed using state-level data for...

"Cuba at a Crossroads" reflects Daniel Bruno Sanz's uncommon vision of Cuban development. His book is the first complete and detailed analysis available on the conterproductive and futile U.S. embargo on Cuba

Il y aura eu trois "11 septembre". Celui qui marquât la refondation de la réaction aux Etats-Unis, le 11 septembre 1960, dans la ville de Sharon, Connecticut, et qui nous valut le Sharon Statement, bible de la restauration conservatrice dans ce pays. Le 11 septembre 2001, constitue une sorte...

This paper analyses land policy when the state lacks the monopoly of legitimate violence (MLV) through a territory. I use historical data for Colombia to empirically assess the dynamics through which the central state allocates land in such a scenario. I argue that colonization processes...

Independence from Spain was a complex movement of civil confrontation and long and cruel wars of liberation. Human lives were lost, assets destroyed, capital fled, slavery abolished and public issues left to inexpert administrations, but at the same time there was an important reduction in the...

Spanish Abstract: Los procesos de transformación ideológica, orientados por las concepciones de desarrollo de personalidades de la política y la economía, durante el siglo XIX en Colombia, se pueden leer como la respuesta a un proceso anacrónico de adopción de patrones que no...