Tribute to Maria da Conceição Tavares / Virginia Laura Fernández .-- The centre-periphery model and the political economy of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean: past and present / André Nassif .-- The failure of shock therapy during the Chilean military dictatorship (1974–1979) / Rodrigo Caputo and Félix Ordóñez .-- What drives non-financial private sector capital outflows in Latin America? / Rodrigo Pérez Artica and Joel Rabinovich .-- The weakening of the developmental State in Brazil: an analysis of the political economy of the 1970s and 1980s / Bruno Rodas Oliveira and Carlos Pinkusfeld Bastos .-- Inflation-targeting systems and exchange rates: the role of global financial variables in emerging economies / Eliene de Sá Farias, Leonardo Bornacki De Mattos and Mateus Ramalho Ribeiro da Fonseca .-- The effects of the coronavirus disease pandemic on the male and female labour supply in Brazil / Isabela Tenório Mouzinho and Evandro Camargos Teixeira .-- Structure of employment associated with international trade in Brazil from a gender perspective / Kethelyn Ferreira and Marta Castilho .-- Using benchmarking to improve urban mobility: a new tool for building smart cities in emerging countries / Fábio Verruck, Roberto Birch Gonçalves and Isadora Conte Poletto .-- Reflections from the Chinese perspective on Sino-Brazilian cooperation in the twenty-first century / Nan Zhou and Jing Li.