Afro-Indigenous health inequities are jointly estimated for Bolivia, Guatemala, Peru and Brazil. The concentration index for various health and health factor indices is decomposed according to two socio-geographic ...

I use two case studies on the veterinary pharmaceutical and poultry sectors in Mexico to discuss technological change in relation to liberalization in trade and investment. Most of the observed technological change takes ...

Human capabilities play an important part in the emergence from stagnation to modern economic growth. Historical and macroeconomic studies show substantial effects for nutrition and health on income levels and on rates of ...

In the last years several authors have reported the finding of deterministic dynamics in the flux of genetic information. Such dynamics suggest that evolution occurs with the emergence and maintenance of a fractal landscape ...

A Schumpeterian (technological) theory of development and underdevelopment in an open global economy with technology transfer, trade and investment is presented. While free trade provides a powerful force for convergence, ...