not clear that Europe's experience translates to Latin America, where the political circumstances are different. We try to …

In this paper I analyze the evolution of economic and social conditions in Latin America from the 1950s through the …

Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its … performance of Latin America. Given the limitations of worldwide tests in discriminating performance at low levels, we also …

Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin … America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities …-imperial collapse and entering a period of relative political stability and economic growth, as did Latin America a century and a half …

The main issue of this paper is to study infant mortality in Latin America in recent decades. In so doing, two … among the nineteen countries in Latin America show their economic losses to be more than 3% of the net national product in …. As the major causes of death in Latin America, these diseases -- influenzaand pneumonia, enteritis and other diarrheal …