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Human development and inequality in the 20th Century : the Mercosur countries in a comparative perspective

Bertola, Luis; Camou, Maria; Maubrigades, Silvana; … - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2008

This article is in line with the United Nations attempts to approach human development in wider terms than per capita GDP, and in line with an ever lively debate on the historical standard of living and on the role of inequality in development. We focus on three Mercosur countries (Argentina,...

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Características de la marginalidad urbana: el caso del Estado de Oaxaca

Soto, Ramos; Luz, Ana - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2010) 12, pp. 261-272

Any conventional poverty line, determined from the purchase power standard ought to establish distinctions inside the essential expenditures, defining that poverty line, in the urban space as well as in the countryside. Migration flows toward cities are the result of employment composition....

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Inequality, low-intensity immigration and human capital formation in the regions of Chile, 1820-1939

Baten, Jörg; Llorca-Jaña, Manuel - 2020

This article traces inequality and numeracy development in the regions of Chile during the 19th and early 20th century. Inequality, measured with anthropometric methods, was associated with a lower speed of human capital formation. Not all talents received the necessary education to make full...

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A comparative portrait of long-run racial disparity in the United States and Brazil

Bucciferro, Justin R. - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 2, pp. 84-110

The relative incomes and education-levels of Black and white populations in the United States and Brazil are considered after Abolition, and framed by earlier disparities in their natural rates of increase. For the post-World War Two period, the effects of demography, education, and regional...

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An Environmental Justice Critique of Comparative Advantage : Indigenous Peoples, Trade Policy, and the Mexican Neoliberal Economic Reforms

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2013

The free market reforms adopted by Mexico in the wake of the debt crisis of the 1980s and in connection with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have jeopardized the physical and cultural survival of Mexico’s indigenous peoples, increased migration to the United States, threatened...

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Trading inequality? : insights from the two globalizations in Latin America

Arroyo Abad, A. Leticia; Santos-Paulino, Amelia U. - 2009

Trade flows among countries have increased dramatically during the last globalization episode creating new winners and … losers between and within countries. This paper revisits the contested topic of the impact of globalization on within …-country inequality in Latin America from a historical perspective. By comparing the two globalization waves (1870-1914, 1970-present) we …

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From West to East: Bolivian Regional GDPs since the 1950s. A story of Natural Resources and Infrastructure

Peres-Cajías, José A - 2019

regional economic growth only when a minimum network of public infrastructure is available. …

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Da arte de conhecer as doenças: o diagnóstico da Economia Mineira de 1968 e o planejamento do desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais

Godoy, Marcelo Magalhães; Barbosa, Daniel Henrique Diniz; … - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2009

The issue of politically oriented regional development occupies an important place in the Economic History of Minas Gerais during the republican period. Since the start of the 20th century, and throughout the most important transformative stages of the Brazilian economic system, notably between...

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Pandemic Spikes and Broken Spears : Indigenous Resilience after the Conquest of Mexico

Diaz-Cayeros, Alberto; Espinosa-Balbuena, Juan; Jha, … - 2021

It is well-established that the Conquest of the Americas by Europeans led to catastrophic declines in indigenous populations. However, less is known about the conditions under which indigenous communities were able to overcome the onslaught of disease and violence that they faced. Drawing upon a...

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Long-Term Effects of the Inca Road

Franco, Ana Paula; Galiani, Sebastian; Lavado, Pablo - 2021

The Inca Empire was the last of a long series of highly developed cultures in pre-colonial South America. It stretched across parts of the current territories of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the whole of Peru. The Inca Road was its 30,000-kilometer-long transportation system....

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