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Social Mobility in Latin America
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This paper presents a case study of<i> </i>a youth organisation working with families in extreme poverty and lack of adequate housing in Chile and Mexico. It initially describes the considerable structural changes that relate to the emergence of the organisation, and then discusses how across context...
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There is a heated debate on the effects of Foreign Direct Investment on development. Proponents argue that FDI is good for development, and hence the rapid expansion of FDI in Latin America in the past decade and a half is manna from heaven. In some cases, it is indeed difficult to imagine...
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Latin America, in spite of some great strides, lags economically advanced nations in its research on information technology. This special issue of Information Technology for Development on “IT Advances in Latin America” provides insights into the practices and applications of IT, points to...
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funcionamiento económico, acorde con altas tasas de crecimiento.Para el pensamiento neoliberal el Estado debe ser reducido y su … Latina,los resultados de su implementación, puede decirse, son precarios. En todos los países las tasas de crecimiento …
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siglo XX las tasas de crecimiento per cápita de los países de la región fueron inferiores a aquellas de los países … del dinamismo del crecimiento es algo esperable a medida que se cierra la brecha del ingreso con las economías …
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During the 2000s Bolivia experienced moderate economic growth and improved all labour market indicators. The economy … suffered a slowdown as a consequence of the international crisis of 2008, but Bolivia sustained positive growth rates during …
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This article explores the variation in the wage distributions of two Latin American countries, Bolivia and Colombia … suggest that Bolivia, which has implemented left-wing economic policies, has experienced a general increase in wages …
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For 50 years Bolivia's political party system was a surprisingly robust component of an otherwise fragile democracy … nation's politics from a typical 20th century, left-right axis of competition deeply unsuited to a society like Bolivia, to … new indigenous political class. Decentralization was the trigger - not the cause - that made Bolivia's latent cleavage …
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justice framework. This chapter articulates the social, environmental and economic outcomes of Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and …
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