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The currency game: exchange rate politics in Latin America. / Jeffry Frieden ..., eds. - Washington/D.C. : Inter-American Development Bank, 2001. - 288 S. + Enthält Rezensionen von: Exchange rate politics in Latin America. / Carol Wise ..., eds. - Washington/D.C. : Brookings Inst. Press, 2000. - 185 S

Examines mechanisms, operation, and evolution of currency blocs in regional and international financial relations, focusing on the impact of US "dollarization."

The career of Raul Prebisch has mirrored the trajectory of structuralism in an historical context. The article explains the success of Latin American structuralism. Methodologically the key to it lies in its ability to isolate a deep structure of the international economy and to center its analysis around it. After a brief eclipse during the late 1970s, Latin American structuralism is currently a vital mode of understanding development problems, frequently in combination with a more formal, mathematical approach originating in the US

Agrargenossenschaften, die sich aus landlosen oder verarmten Bauern rekrutieren, sind vielerorts vom Bankrott bedroht. Der Artikel untersucht die Gründe für die erfolgreiche Organisation informeller Agrargenossenschaften in Paraguay

The decline in the share of agriculture & increase in secondary production's share have generally been found to accompany changes in per capita income. Cross-sectional data have long exhibited such a "pattern of development." Recent panel information combining cross-section & time-series data seems to extend the behavior to time series. Using analysis of covariance tests for such patterns, the assumption of homogeneous patterns is rejected. In addition, 45% of the individual countries deviate from the expected time-series pattern. Thus, such patterns certainly do appear in cross sections, but their existence across countries over time is not confirmed. 6 Tables, 1 Appendix, 9 References. HA.