To the casual observer, the era of Bolivian president Juan Evo Morales Ayma has been a
story of great achievement. His election in 2005 was hailed by both the global and regional …

The resource curse is a phenomenon regularly evoked in the economic literature on under-
development. Given Bolivia׳ s low level of GDP per capita and its international insertion …

Using precautionary savings models we compute levels of optimal reserves for Bolivia.
Because of Bolivia's reliance on commodity exports and little integration with capital …

Este trabalho investiga os sintomas de doença holandesa para o Brasil em termos da
influência dos preços das diversas commodities exportadas sobre a apreciação da taxa de …

In this document the transmission channel between natural resource dependence and its
dynamic effects on growth is evaluated (Dutch disease hypothesis). An exemplification is …

En los últimos años Bolivia ha experimentado una fuerte entrada de divisas debido en parte
a un notable repunte en los precios de los recursos naturales que exporta, elemento que …

Since 2003 the development of the Iraqi petroleum sector has witnessed unprecedented
openness for foreign direct investment (FDI). This includes, to one degree or another, all …

We examine the effects of the 'natural resource curse'on Chad and find little evidence for
Dutch disease. Structural vector auto-regression suggests that changes in domestic output …

Various authors have pointed out that the complex processes of globalization arebringing
about general shifts in political practices. In particular, these processes areseen to have …

Human geographers and others have started to challenge the language of fait accompli that
often surrounds discussions of workers and globalization. Labor geography and debates on …