Auteur: Augusto de la Torre

The world economy is not what it used to be twenty years ago. For most of the 20th century, the world economy was characterized by developed (North) countries acting as ‘center’ to a ‘periphery’ of d …

Experts examine how regulatory and institutional environments affect the functioning of markets and propose reforms.In recent years governments have paid increasing attention to weighing the socioeco …

This book, the companion volume to ‘Low Carbon, High Growth: Latin American Responses to Climate Change’, examines some of the major threats posed by climate change to the region’s economies, societi …

Policy makers in many countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region have found it challenging to determine how to treat natural resource commodity production and how to manage the recurrent cy …