Los nómadas del noreste novohispano: Culturas impugnadas | Istor 77
“A los historiadores les disgustan los nómadas”, sentenció hace años el profesor Lindner, con mucha razón.1 Al abordar el tema se encuentra uno con que tiene pocos antecesores, sean historiadores o arqueólogos, en quienes basar la búsqueda de ese largo pasado de millares de aborígenes que vivieron en una región dos veces del tamaño de
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Does the commodities boom support the export led growth hypothesis? Evidence from Latin American countries
Commodity prices are characterized by boom and bust cycles. In this article written by Werner Kristjanpoller, Josephine E. Olson and Rodolfo I. Salazar, the impact of the commodity boom of the 2000s on Latin American and Caribbean economies is studied by analyzing four categories of commodity exports (agricultural raw materials, fuel, food, ore and minerals)
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Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Empirical evidence indicates that in Latin America and the Caribbean, households on less favored, or marginal, agricultural land form a “residual” pool of rural labor. Edward B. Barbier and John S. Bugas mention that although the modern sector may be the source of dynamic growth through learning-by-doing and knowledge spillovers, patterns of labor, land and other
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