Precios de la Energía, Sustitución y Endeudamiento en el Corto Plazo: Un Análisis Empírico

With the increase in the price of oil there has been an important increase in the borrowing of non oil producing developing countries. This paper explores: a) whether the observed increased indebtedness of LDC's was in fact "excessive" or simply a perfect

Distribución del Ingreso, Necesidades Básicas y Trade Offs con Crecimiento: El Caso de los Países Latinoamericanos Semi-industrializados

The policy options oriented towards the attack on extreme poverty in semi-industrialized, average income, Latin-American countries, are examined in this paper. Countries included possessed per capita incomes of over US$ 700 in 1977; an industrial sector o

El Costo Económico del Desperdicio de Cerebros

The economic implications of the outflow of highly educated individuals from LDC’s, i.e., the "external" brain drain, has received considerable attention in the developing literature. This paper draws attention to what might, by analogy, be called the "in