Although China began to sign bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in the 1970s, it refused to grant foreign investors the right to sue their host government in international arbitration tribunals. Few realize that China’s ...

The article shows that the largest family firms in Brazil have a greater longevity than other large family firms in other emerging economies, such as China or Mexico. The study analyzes these giant firms, many of them ...

In the last decade, China has transformed in a strategic commercial partner for South America. China is the first or the second largest trade partner for the majority of the economies in the sub-region. However, the trade ...

The article surveys the study of Latin American business politics, focusing on three main areas: The structure of business, the preferences of business, and its power in the political process. The structure of businesses ...

Chinese-style FTAs in South America have proved to be unique in three respects: first, due to China’s continued classification as a non-market developing economy at the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Chile-China and ...

Los países europeos que en uno u otro momento han manifestado interés en el estudio de diversos aspectos de la realidad latinoamericana (España, Francia, Inglaterra, Alemania), lo han hecho, en líneas generales, a partir ...

In March of 2011, China’s National People’s Congress approved the country’s 12th Five-Year Plan, an extensive guide for social and economic planning through the year 2015. Initiated in 1953, China’s five-year plans have ...

After the lost decade of the 1980s, the 1990s represent the “decade of hope“ for Latin America. A vigorous economic transformation is reducing the role of the state and allowing the private sector to become once again the ...

This article analyzes the promotion of social participation from the changes in educational policy due to the National Agreement for the Modernization of Basic Education, signed in 1992, focusing on social participation ...

The purpose of this paper is to explain why the member countries of the Andean Community (AC), have taken so long to complete the Andean Free Trade Area and have repeatedly delayed the deadline for achieving the Andean ...