Recently, many scholars have tried to explain how electoral systems are linked to corruption Several theories emerged but still no consensus has been reached. With a dataset of about 50 democratic countries considered over 10 years we try to understand which of the effects highlighted in the theoretical literature domínales. The results tend to show ...

This paper uses international data on voter turnout and individual-level data to describe levels and distribution of political participation in Latin America The paper finds that, while voter turnout in Latin America is rather low. the analysis of more general indicators of political activism reveals that participation is fairly homogenous across socio-economic strata The finding ...

Following a recent line of research promoted by the Harvard Centre for International Development (and by Jeffrey Sachs in particular), the paper explores the relationship between first nature determinants (i.e: natural geography) and economic as well as industrial development in South American countries before the implementation of the New Economic Model in the region. The ...

This paper tests whether Rodrik's (1999) results that institutions for conflict management are associated with the ability to react to economic shocks are robust to different ways of defining the quality of such institutions. In this paper, we measure the quality of conflict management institutions with two different indices. The first is an indexof political ...

This paper builds on Freud and Weinhold (2000) to show that the results of that paper can be applied to the case of Bolivia. We review the implications of the Freud and Weinhold model, emphasizing the effects of the Internet on increasing trade and lessening the effects of historical trading patterns in determining trade flows. ...

The increase in Natural gas sales to Brazil in the coming years will bring about substantial changes in the Bolivia economy. In this paper, we use a general equilibrium model to simulate the changes that will occur in the Bolivian economy and will consider the distributional impacts that are likely to arise from these economic ...

This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. To this end, we set up a small-scale macroeconomic model of dual economy to capture the transmission mechanisms through whichthe deregulation of product and factor markets, the liberalization of the trade and FDI regime, and the ...

In the 1980s, ecuador began an expensive project providing primary irrigation canals to the Santa Elena Peninsula. The intended beneficiaries were regions'scommunal farmers. Instead, virtually all irrigable lands have been sold to large farmers and land speculators, usually at exceedingly low prices.

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