Economic development in Colombia since the early twentieth century / José Antonio Ocampo and Carmen Astrid Romero Baquero .-- The Amazon region at the heart of the Brazilian economy’s commodity-export model: the case of the State of Pará / José Raimundo Barreto Trindade and Adejard Gaia Cruz .-- On tragedy and hope: homo economicus, the invisible hand and reality / Rafael Correa Delgado .-- The nexus between outward foreign direct investment and exports: evidence from developing countries / Madiha Gohar, Lingyan Xu, Iskandar Muda, Hajra Ihsan and Ayesha Mustafa .-- Sustainability and development in the municipalities of the State of Paraná: mapping and analysis using the sustainable city development index of Brazil (IDSC-BR) / Ana Paula Costa and Virginia Laura Fernández .-- Determinants of inward foreign direct investment in Colombia: an empirical analysis / Carlos Abreo, Eduardo Carrillo and Jennifer Pédussel Wu .-- Smart diversification strategies differentiated by countries’ complexity / Ciro de Moura Lopes, João Prates Romero and Elton Eduardo Freitas .-- Does the decision to participate in the labour market affect people’s subjective well-being? / Rodrigo Montero and Diego Vásquez .-- External debt and exchange-rate misalignment in Brazilian firms: developments and risks from 2000 to 2018 / Francisco E. P. Souza, Viviane Luporini, Margarida Gutierrez and Vicente Ferreira .-- Support for technological innovation in the Brazilian machinery and equipment sector since the 2000s: analysis based on the Innovation Survey (PINTEC) / Karina Palmieri de Almeida and Marisa dos Reis Azevedo Botelho.