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Regional Integration in Latin America - The Pacific Alliance a Way Ahead
Academic, Journal Articles, Spanish

Formal Institutions, Human Development and Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Study between Highly Developed Countries and Members of the Pacific Alliance

Abstract:
This paper compares highly developed countries
(Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Sweden, and Finland) and the four-member countries of the Pacific Alliance (Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Chile), trying to find possible relationships between formal institutions, rate of entrepreneurship and human development. It is a descriptive-correlational study which uses information derived from the World Bank’s Governance Indicators (2018), the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom (2018), the Global Entrepreneurship Index (2018), and the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Index (2018). This paper concludes that there is a positive relationship between the quality of formal institutions and the level of human development in the countries that were compared.

Resumen:
El artículo plantea una comparación entre países con alto nivel de desarrollo
(Australia, Reino Unido, Canadá, Estados Unidos, Suecia y Finlandia), y los cuatro países que conforman la Alianza del Pacífico (Colombia, México, Perú y Chile). El objetivo es encontrar posibles relaciones entre las instituciones formales, el nivel de emprendimiento y el desarrollo humano. El tipo de estudio es descriptivo, con alcances correlaciónales. En la investigación se utiliza información de los indicadores de gobernanza del Banco Mundial en el 2018, el índice de libertad económica de 2018 de la Fundación Heritage, el índice global de emprendimiento de 2018 y el índice de desarrollo humano de 2018 del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo. En los resultados se presentan las comparaciones y las correlaciones identificadas. La conclusión principal es la relación entre la calidad de las instituciones formales y el nivel de desarrollo humano en los países analizados.

Authors: Cesar Ignacio León Quillas, Hector Fernando Rueda, Carlos Hernán González-Campo
Spanish Title: Institutiones Formales, Desarrollo Humano y Emprendimiento: Un Estudio Comparativo entre Países con Alto Nivel de Desarrollo y los Países de la Alianza del Pacífico
Full document: 2020, Quillas, Institutiones Formales, Desarrollo Humano y Emprendimiento

January 14, 2016by Ana Maria Palacio
Academic, Journal Articles, Spanish

The Pacific Alliance as a Regional Trade Agreement: Analysis from an Ius Internationalist Approach

Abstract:
This paper analyses critically the integration model proposed by the Pacific Alliance (PA) from the perspective of the legal foundations of Colombia’s foreign policy, in order to determine the degree of normative convergence between the Colombian constitutional order and this particular trade agreement.

This research uses legal technique and case-law analysis as research methodologies, offering a detailed panorama of the normative development of the PA and its relationship with the constitutional requirements regulating the international relations of Colombia.

The paper argues that despite being at an initial stage in relation to its normative and institutional structure, the PA has emerged as a second-generation regional trade agreement (RTA), which complements its commercial trajectory with political, social and productive integration agendas, promoting the diversification of international economic relations of its members without altering or modifying their sovereign powers. The above allows showing its compatibility with the constitutional mandate pro integratione, particularly in regard to the idea of promoting the internationalisation of Colombian economic relations with countries of Latin America and other world regions.

Resumen:
Este artículo examina críticamente el modelo de integración propuesto por la Alianza del Pacífico (AP) desde la perspectiva de los fundamentos jurídicos de la política exterior colombiana, con el objetivo de determinar el grado de convergencia normativa existente entre el ordenamiento constitucional colombiano y este instrumento comercial.

La investigación se desarrolla utilizando la técnica jurídica y el análisis jurisprudencial como metodologías de investigación, y se ofrece un panorama detallado sobre el desarrollo normativo de la AP y su relación con los preceptos constitucionales que regulan las relaciones internacionales de Colombia.

El artículo concluye que pese a encontrarse en una etapa inicial con relación a su estructura normativa e institucional, la AP se perfila como un acuerdo comercial regional (ACR) de segunda generación que complementa su vocación comercial con agendas de integración política, social y productiva, estimulando la diversificación de las relaciones económicas internacionales de sus miembros sin alterar o modificar sus competencias soberanas. Lo anterior permite constatar su compatibilidad con el mandato constitucional pro integratione, particularmente con respecto al ideal de promover la internacionalización de las relaciones económicas de Colombia con países de la región y de otras latitudes.

Authors: Edgard Cuestas Zamora & Ulf Thoene
Spanish Title: La Alianza del Pacífico como acuerdo comercial regional: análisis desde un enfoque ius internacionalista
Full Document: 2020, Cuestas & Thoene, La Alianza del Pacífico como acuerdo comercial regional – análisis desde un enfoque ius internacionalista

January 14, 2016by Ana Maria Palacio
Academic, Spanish, Theses

Innovation in the Pacific Alliance

Abstract:
Not available

Resumen:
El estudio busca entender y presentar las estrategias en temas de innovación con las que actualmente cuenta la Alianza del Pacífico, resaltando la importancia de la misma en la generación de ventajas competitivas que posicionan a los países integrantes a nivel mundial, permitiéndole cumplir uno de sus mayores objetivos que es generar relaciones comerciales con la región Asia-Pacífico. Adicionalmente, definir su rendimiento en esta área y la manera en que los integrantes de la Alianza se ven involucrados y beneficiados por las acciones en torno a actividades que mejoren este indicador.

Author: Carlos Daniel Patiño Hernández
Full document: 2020, Patiño Hernandez, Innovación en la Alianza del Pacífico

January 14, 2016by Ana Maria Palacio
Academic, English, Publications, Theses

Essays on Corporate Law, Governance and Development in the Pacific Alliance

Abstract:
The Pacific Alliance is an economic block formed by Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru in 2011. Driven by the shared goal of accelerating economic development through market liberalisation and the preeminence of both democracy and the rule of law, it has gradually established common economic policies and institutions, including a venture capital fund and an integrated stock exchange—the Mercado Integrado Latinoamericano (MILA). Despite these and other accomplishments, corporate law and governance remain within the jurisdictional borders of the Alliance’s member States. This context offers a unique opportunity to critically review and test contemporary accounts on the extent to which corporate law and governance can contribute to economic development by promoting three objectives: sustainable corporate practices, entrepreneurship, and private firms’ access to external finance.

This dissertation comprises three essays, each of which uses a different method—functional legal analysis, econometrics, and leximetrics, respectively—to dissect these questions individually. Together, they demonstrate that, beyond the regulation of entry and shareholder protection, corporate law and governance can induce meaningful changes to corporate behaviour with an impact on economic development determinants. The essays also attest that the Pacific Alliance has not done enough to promote these objectives.

Resumen:
No disponible

Author: Alvaro Enrique Pereira
Full document: 2020, Pereira, Essays on Corporate Law, Governance and Development in the Pacific Alliance

January 14, 2016by Ana Maria Palacio

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