The Latin America Working Group (LAWG) invites you to submit your manuscript for the upcoming 2022 Alumni Workshop of the ECLAC School of Latin American Development Studies (ELADES).
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Possible topics may include:
Debt and Development: The role of FDI in the region, the changing nature of external creditors in the region
Inclusive Finance: The role of state development banks (e.g. BNDES in Brazil) and micro-credit institutions or traditional banks financing (agricultural) value chains in the region.
Inequality: Household-income survey analyses of personal income distribution as well as assessment of the shifting factor-income shares due to changing macroeconomic regimes in the region.
Macroeconomic regimes: Determinants of the various exchange rate regimes at work in the region, and the connection with inflation, the business cycle and growth potential.
Technological gaps: Innovation, imitation and adaptive technological strategies, national systems of innovation, and balance of payments constraints in the region.
Productive specialization: reprimarization, industrialization around natural resource-based complexes or import substitution industrialization (ISI).
Schools of Latin American economic thought: structuralism, dependency theory, the role of ECLAC.Preference will be given for ELADES alumni. Papers will be accepted in English and Spanish.