Monetary regimes and labour institutions: an alternative interpretation of the downward trend in exchange-rate pass-through in peripheral countries / Martín Cherkasky and Martín Abeles . -- Models of the developmental state / Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira .-- The development of venture capital in Latin America and the Caribbean: a comparative perspective / Ernesto H. Stein and Rodrigo A. Wagner .-- The heterogeneity of effects of preschool education on cognitive outcomes in Latin America / Juan Antonio Dip and Luis Fernando Gamboa .-- Economic growth and financial development in Brazil: a flexible regression model approach / Filipe de Morais Cangussu Pessoa, Marcelo José Braga and Gabriel Alves de Sampaio Morais .-- The importance of terms of trade in the Colombian economy / Andrés Felipe Oviedo Gómez and Lya Paola Sierra Suárez .-- Short- and long-term ex post evaluation of community-based environmental initiatives in Chile / Cristian Mardones .-- A multidimensional approach to the well-being of the population of the states of Mexico / Amilcar O. Fernández Domínguez and Denise Gómez Hernández .-- Inherited and social factors explaining early skills inequality: the case of Chilean children / Ricardo Rivas.