In this article, we evaluate the effects of the Mexican Drug War on Mexican states' economic growth. To do so, we study the effects of the rise in the homicide rate and changes in a state锕峞vel approximation of the military budget on economic growth. Using dynamic panel data econometrics...
The Mexican Revolution of 1910 began on November 20, 1910, and lasted for an entire decade, ending on May 21, 1920. When the Mexican Revolution was over, fighting continued sporadically until the 1930s. Although the war took place countrywide in Mexico, the majority of the battles were loca...
Net winners from a new Trump regime are likely to be the same ones as during Trump 1.0. The Mexican peso was the best performing currency from 2017-2020 as anti-Mexican policies failed to materialize – we would expect the same in the domain of economics and markets for 2025-2028. Similar...
Coca plantations are the largest illegal agribusiness in the world, and Colombia is the world's leading coca producer. Since 1994, the Colombian state, with the aid of the US, has waged a war on drugs based on air fumigation of coca plantations. This article evaluates the social and environ...
There were a number of effects of the massive influx of immigrants to the US in the late 1800s. Perhaps the most important was the new availability... Learn more about this topic: Immigration in the 1800s to the U.S. | Overview & History ...
Real-World Examples of a Currency Crisis Let's take a look at a few crises to see how they played out for investors. Latin American Crisis of 1994 On Dec. 20, 1994, theMexican peso was devalued. The Mexican economy had improved greatly since 1982 when it last experienced upheaval, and...
The U.S. had used direct military intervention, such as in the Spanish-American War and the Mexican-American War. The U.S. exerted diplomatic and economic pressure over the region to serve U.S. interests. Latin Americans considered the U.S. attitude toward their region to be a form of ...
(EPR) as the main strategy for delivery of particulate systems, requiring a size restriction of between 100-300nm on particle size if drug delivery is to be effective [1]. With the advancement of targeted drug delivery such as the use of monoclonal antibodies to target disease sites, ...
, the Confederacy attackedFort Sumterin South Carolina, effectively beginning the Civil War. The main cause for the tensions and fighting between states was the institution of slavery and concerns that it would move into new lands to the west that had been gained during the Mexican-American War...
In so doing, my work also provides additional context on how the 1921 and 1924 Acts affected the trajectories of immigrants who had already arrived in the US but who now faced the prospect of being more alone and ethnically isolated than previously expected. I find that immigrants who came ...