Latin America is attracting increasing interest due to the strong economic performance of the
last decade and to the political changes that are taking place. This book gives a unique …

Siempre me ha interesado la historia y en particular la historia económica. De ella se
extraen importantes experiencias que nos permiten entender mejor la compleja realidad …

This article examines distributional disparities within nations. There are six main
conclusions. First, about 80 per cent of the world's population now lives in regions whose …

The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present traces the last 500 years of Mexican
history, from the indigenous empires that were devastated by the Spanish conquest through …

Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an
approachable style, The Politics of Innovation provides readers from all backgrounds and …

Why are some countries richer than others? Why do some economies grow so much faster
than others do? Do economies tend to converge to similar levels of per capita income? Or is …

Why do Mexicans migrate to the United States? Is there a typical Mexican migrant?
Beginning in the 1970s, survey data indicated that the average migrant was a young …

A growing body of evidence suggests that criminal organizations across the Global South
actively exploit natural resources in the communities where they operate with important …

This thesis analyses financialisation in developing countries. Financialisation is first
theoretically located within the distinctive characteristics of the contemporary world market …

When the postwar boom began to dissipate in the late 1960s, Mexico's middle classes
awoke to a new, economically terrifying world. And following massacres of students at …