Rubén Berríos
Biographic Data
| ID | 170732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rubén Berríos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rubén |
| FAMILY NAME | Berríos |
| SIGNATURE | BERRÍOS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3036-8311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Culture Impacts Economic Development: A Cross-country Comparison
The significance of cultural factors in economic development is analyzed. Culture here refers to values, behaviors, and beliefs. Culture alone cannot explain development, but there are some factors that help us understand why some countries develop faster than others. The study makes use of the World Values Survey as a road map for analysis using cross-cultural comparisons. The analysis focuses on two key core values: trust and achievement. This …
Contracting and Accountability Under Leaner Government
Federal government contracting has increased over the past three decades as a way to reduce costs and to promote greater efficiency and effectiveness in the procurement system. In making contracting decisions and calculating cost savings, however, officials do not always take into account all costs associated with the process. Transaction cost theory is used to analyze the costs incurred in contracting for gathering information, negotiation, and …
Corruption as a Drag on Development
Corruption is a worldwide phenomenon manifested in many different forms. Whether it appears as a few bills pressed into the hand of a police officer, as the awarding of a government contract without competition, or as the abuse of public office by accepting kickbacks or stealing from the treasury, corruption is a fact of life. Its economic consequences are also well known. It discourages investment, distorts trade, and increases costs, which, in …
Explaining hydrocarbon nationalization in Latin America: Economics and political ideology
Recent hydrocarbon nationalizations in Bolivia, Venezuela, and Ecuador have renewed debates about the dangers of radicals, populists, or leftists. But, while some of these presidents have acted aggressively towards multinational owners, as a group their policies have not differed greatly from non-leftists facing similar circumstances. To test our hypothesis, we provide a detailed three-variable coding of every Mexican and South American president…
Peru and Japan: An Uneasy Relationship
Relations between Peru and Japan go back over 100 years to the time when Japanese first immigrated to Peru seeking work. Japan became an important trading partner and aid donor over the last three decades, and Japanese in Peru prospered, culminating in the election as president in 1990 of Alberto Fujimori, a descendant of Japanese immigrants. Relations between the countries were never easy and at times even became strained, because Japan took a l…
Contracting for Development: The Role of For-Profit Contractors in U.S. Foreign Development Assistance
Japan's Economic Presence in Latin America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Qualified Success Story: Cuba’s Economic Restructuring, 1990–1995
The loss of his Soviet patron forced Castro to re-evaluate his devotion to socialism. After five years of experimentation, Cuba appears to want capitalists, but not capitalism, to help build socialism
Countertrade as a Form of Debt Payment: Peru’s Experience with the Soviet Union and Commercial Banks
Iberoamericana – Revista Nórdica de Estudios de Latinoamérica y el Caribe, es una revista académica arbitrada, interdisciplinaria y bilingüe. Es administrada por el Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Estocolmo en colaboración con otras universidades nórdicas con el objetivo de presentar investigación de alta calidad sobre América Latina.La revista publica artículos originales enfocados en temas relacionados con las cienci…
Economic transition in Poland: The relevance of the Latin-American experience
Shock therapy was used in Poland causing many problems. It is true that four years later the economy started to grow again, but the transition to the market economy took place with high unemployment rates and increasing social inequalities. Poland’s liberalization and economic stabilization program has a lot to do with similar programs experienced in Latin America and could be useful to Poland. In the short term, costs are similar to those of the…
The Polish economy: Crisis, reform, and transformation
Journal Article The Polish economy: crisis, reform, and transformation Get access The Polish economy: crisis, reform, and transformation. By Ben Slay. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1994. 229pp. Index. £26.50. ISBN 0 691 03616 0. Ruben Berrios Ruben Berrios 1University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 650–651, https://doi.…
Peru and the Soviet Union (1969-1989): Distant Partners
For twenty years the Soviet Union has had closer relations with Peru than with any other Latin American country apart from Cuba or Nicaragua. In fact, Peru was the first post-Cuban revolution centre of Soviet operations in South America, and perhaps still plays that role today. Now that the Cold War is over the balance sheet of Soviet relations with Peru can be evaluated with more detachment than ever
Transideological collaboration and East-West- South economic relations
The Soviet Union and the Third World
Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier. The Soviet Union and the Third World. Praeger: New York, 1983. 188 pages. $23.95
Relations between Nicaragua and the Socialist Countries
Since the Late 1960s, due to détente and rising nationalism in Latin America, the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries have succeeded in expanding diplomatic relations with most countries in the Western Hemisphere (Blasier, 1984; Fichet, 1981). For an increasing number of Third World nations, the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) countries of Eastern Europe have become a source of trade, credits, technical assistance and pol…
The Political Economy of East-South Relations
The discussion and overall assessment of East-West balance has ignored the economic dimensions of East-South relations. This paper examines the political and economic relations between the industrialized socialist CMEA countries of Eastern Europe and the Third World, focusing on the dynamics of trade, aid and technology transfer. It attempts to achieve a greater understanding of the recent evolution, its present state and possible developments in…
Explaining hydrocarbon nationalization in Latin America: Economics and political ideology
Recent hydrocarbon nationalizations in Bolivia, Venezuela, and Ecuador have renewed debates about the dangers of radicals, populists, or leftists. But, while some of these presidents have acted aggressively towards multinational owners, as a group their policies have not differed greatly from non-leftists facing similar circumstances. To test our hypothesis, we provide a detailed three-variable coding of every Mexican and South American president…
Peru and the Soviet Union (1969-1989): Distant Partners
For twenty years the Soviet Union has had closer relations with Peru than with any other Latin American country apart from Cuba or Nicaragua. In fact, Peru was the first post-Cuban revolution centre of Soviet operations in South America, and perhaps still plays that role today. Now that the Cold War is over the balance sheet of Soviet relations with Peru can be evaluated with more detachment than ever
Peru and Japan: An Uneasy Relationship
Relations between Peru and Japan go back over 100 years to the time when Japanese first immigrated to Peru seeking work. Japan became an important trading partner and aid donor over the last three decades, and Japanese in Peru prospered, culminating in the election as president in 1990 of Alberto Fujimori, a descendant of Japanese immigrants. Relations between the countries were never easy and at times even became strained, because Japan took a l…
Relations between Nicaragua and the Socialist Countries
Since the Late 1960s, due to détente and rising nationalism in Latin America, the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries have succeeded in expanding diplomatic relations with most countries in the Western Hemisphere (Blasier, 1984; Fichet, 1981). For an increasing number of Third World nations, the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) countries of Eastern Europe have become a source of trade, credits, technical assistance and pol…
The Political Economy of East-South Relations
The discussion and overall assessment of East-West balance has ignored the economic dimensions of East-South relations. This paper examines the political and economic relations between the industrialized socialist CMEA countries of Eastern Europe and the Third World, focusing on the dynamics of trade, aid and technology transfer. It attempts to achieve a greater understanding of the recent evolution, its present state and possible developments in…
The Political Economy of East-South Relations
The discussion and overall assessment of East-West balance has ignored the economic dimensions of East-South relations. This paper examines the political and economic relations between the industrialized socialist CMEA countries of Eastern Europe and the Third World, focusing on the dynamics of trade, aid and technology transfer. It attempts to achieve a greater understanding of the recent evolution, its present state and possible developments in…
The Soviet Union and the Third World
Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier. The Soviet Union and the Third World. Praeger: New York, 1983. 188 pages. $23.95
Relations between Nicaragua and the Socialist Countries
Since the Late 1960s, due to détente and rising nationalism in Latin America, the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries have succeeded in expanding diplomatic relations with most countries in the Western Hemisphere (Blasier, 1984; Fichet, 1981). For an increasing number of Third World nations, the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) countries of Eastern Europe have become a source of trade, credits, technical assistance and pol…
Transideological collaboration and East-West- South economic relations
Peru and the Soviet Union (1969-1989): Distant Partners
For twenty years the Soviet Union has had closer relations with Peru than with any other Latin American country apart from Cuba or Nicaragua. In fact, Peru was the first post-Cuban revolution centre of Soviet operations in South America, and perhaps still plays that role today. Now that the Cold War is over the balance sheet of Soviet relations with Peru can be evaluated with more detachment than ever
Countertrade as a Form of Debt Payment: Peru’s Experience with the Soviet Union and Commercial Banks
Iberoamericana – Revista Nórdica de Estudios de Latinoamérica y el Caribe, es una revista académica arbitrada, interdisciplinaria y bilingüe. Es administrada por el Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Estocolmo en colaboración con otras universidades nórdicas con el objetivo de presentar investigación de alta calidad sobre América Latina.La revista publica artículos originales enfocados en temas relacionados con las cienci…
Economic transition in Poland: The relevance of the Latin-American experience
Shock therapy was used in Poland causing many problems. It is true that four years later the economy started to grow again, but the transition to the market economy took place with high unemployment rates and increasing social inequalities. Poland’s liberalization and economic stabilization program has a lot to do with similar programs experienced in Latin America and could be useful to Poland. In the short term, costs are similar to those of the…
The Polish economy: Crisis, reform, and transformation
Journal Article The Polish economy: crisis, reform, and transformation Get access The Polish economy: crisis, reform, and transformation. By Ben Slay. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1994. 229pp. Index. £26.50. ISBN 0 691 03616 0. Ruben Berrios Ruben Berrios 1University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 71, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 650–651, https://doi.…
A Qualified Success Story: Cuba’s Economic Restructuring, 1990–1995
The loss of his Soviet patron forced Castro to re-evaluate his devotion to socialism. After five years of experimentation, Cuba appears to want capitalists, but not capitalism, to help build socialism
Contracting for Development: The Role of For-Profit Contractors in U.S. Foreign Development Assistance
Japan's Economic Presence in Latin America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Peru and Japan: An Uneasy Relationship
Relations between Peru and Japan go back over 100 years to the time when Japanese first immigrated to Peru seeking work. Japan became an important trading partner and aid donor over the last three decades, and Japanese in Peru prospered, culminating in the election as president in 1990 of Alberto Fujimori, a descendant of Japanese immigrants. Relations between the countries were never easy and at times even became strained, because Japan took a l…
Corruption as a Drag on Development
Corruption is a worldwide phenomenon manifested in many different forms. Whether it appears as a few bills pressed into the hand of a police officer, as the awarding of a government contract without competition, or as the abuse of public office by accepting kickbacks or stealing from the treasury, corruption is a fact of life. Its economic consequences are also well known. It discourages investment, distorts trade, and increases costs, which, in …
Explaining hydrocarbon nationalization in Latin America: Economics and political ideology
Recent hydrocarbon nationalizations in Bolivia, Venezuela, and Ecuador have renewed debates about the dangers of radicals, populists, or leftists. But, while some of these presidents have acted aggressively towards multinational owners, as a group their policies have not differed greatly from non-leftists facing similar circumstances. To test our hypothesis, we provide a detailed three-variable coding of every Mexican and South American president…
Contracting and Accountability Under Leaner Government
Federal government contracting has increased over the past three decades as a way to reduce costs and to promote greater efficiency and effectiveness in the procurement system. In making contracting decisions and calculating cost savings, however, officials do not always take into account all costs associated with the process. Transaction cost theory is used to analyze the costs incurred in contracting for gathering information, negotiation, and …
How Culture Impacts Economic Development: A Cross-country Comparison
The significance of cultural factors in economic development is analyzed. Culture here refers to values, behaviors, and beliefs. Culture alone cannot explain development, but there are some factors that help us understand why some countries develop faster than others. The study makes use of the World Values Survey as a road map for analysis using cross-cultural comparisons. The analysis focuses on two key core values: trust and achievement. This …
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