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To study the impact of devaluation, the author focusses on three main factors: the structure of the trade sector in terms of the response of trade flows to changes in relative prices; the relative intensity of domestic value added with respect to imported in production across export and import competing industries; the degree of wage indexation

International migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites, which is the focus of this paper. The paper offers a three-fold classification of elites: (a) knowledge elites, (b) entrepreneurial elites and (c) political elites. We explore the concept of elites and their main motivation to move across nations and review indirect empirical evidence relevant to this type of mobility, highlighting some channels through which elites can affect international development.

This Element examines the process of economic development of the last 50 years or so under the neoliberal model in terms of impacts on growth, inflation, income and wealth distribution and structural change. The analysis includes a historical perspective from the 19th century to the present and combines economic analysis with a political economy approach. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Economic growth in Latin America and the rise of material welfare has lagged behind that of more dynamic areas of the world economy. In a region prone to policy experiments, the policies of the Washington Consensus applied since the 1990s failed to bring sustained growth to most of Latin America. Andrés Solimano and an impressive set of contributors analyze the last 40 years in order to determine the role of economic reforms, external conditions, factor accumulation, income inequality, political instability and productivity in explaining GDP increases. The book also looks at cycles of growth, identifying periods of rapid growth and contrasting them with periods of stagnation and collapse

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Crisis and Dollarization: An Overview -- 2 Longer- Term Origins of Ecuador's ÏPredollarizationÓ Crisis -- 3 Ecuador under Dollarization: Opportunities and Risks -- 4 Ecuador: Crisis, Poverty, and Social Protection -- 5 Gender Dimensions of Vulnerability to Exogenous Shocks: The Case of Ecuador.