Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Anthropology and Globalization -- 2. Mexico and the World -- 3. From Peasants to Worker-Peasants to Small-Scale Flexible Producers -- 4. Flexible Garment Production -- 5. Making It in the Garment Industry -- 6. Illusions and Disillusions:...

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- PART 1. INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT CHALLENGES IN MEXICO -- 1. Main Issues and Challenges -- Part 2. Sector Reviews -- 2. Telecommunications -- 3. Natural Gas -- 4. Urban Water Supply and Sanitation -- 5. Toll Roads --...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Authors and Task Team -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: LESSONS FROM THE FIELD -- 1. Facets of Participation -- 2. Case Summaries -- 3. Organizing Participation: The Project Level -- 4. Focusing on Process:...

Cover -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 How Crises Change Political Values -- 3 Micropolitics and Macropolitical Consequences in Mexico -- 4 Micropolitics and Macropolitical Consequences in Canada -- 5 Mexico's Energy Policies in the Seventies and Eighties: an Analysis -- 6 Canada's Energy...

The current framework of development cooperation is dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. But emerging economies have begun to accelerate their own development programmes, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution. This expert volume...

One of the main inquiry topics within crime and conflict studies is how inequalities or poverty fosters or deters participation in organised violence. Since the late 1990s, the increase in violence in Latin America has boosted the use of Global North criminology and conflict studies to explain...

This article explains some of the mechanisms through which corruption by high-level Mexican politicians and other organized crime members is facilitated in the United States through money laundering operations. The analysis is based on information contained in court records related to key money...

For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more. Poverty in those countries has intensified as they struggle under the burden of an enormous external debt. In 1988, more than six years after the onset of the crisis,...

Cover -- Contents -- THE IMPACT OF MEXICO'S ENERGY REFORM ON HYDROCARBONS PRODUCTION -- A. Current Challenges in the Energy Industry -- B. Most Significant Reform Effort in 75 Years -- C. Impact on Energy Production -- D. Resource Blessed -- E. How Long Does it Take? -- F. Production Scenarios...