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La cooperación Sur-Sur en relación con los proyectos de integración sudamericanos

Santos, Sergio Caballero - HAL - 2013

Si hay un hecho particular y característico en la integración en la región latinoamericana es el referente a la multiplicidad de iniciativas y proyectos regionales. En este artículo se abordan distintos proyectos de integración regional -UNASUR, ALBA, Mercosur-, presididos por distintas...

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La descentralización y sus efectos en las políticas portuarias en Latinoamérica

Trujillo, María Victoria Flores - HAL - 2013

La descentralización es un proceso político, económico y social que tiene por objetivo la democratización de poder, trasladando no solo la administración de recursos sino la toma de decisiones; la capacidad económica de resolver los problemas locales de zonas alejadas del eje central, con...

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Is the Anti Money Laundering Compliance Convenient?: International Capital Flows and Stigma Effect in Latin America: The Case of Paraguay

Masciandaro, Donato - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This study analyzes the international financial flows of Latin America in order to verify existence and direction of the Stigma Effect. Is the AML/CFT financial regulation that addresses the money laundering and terrorism finance phenomena relevant in shaping the pattern of international banking...

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Contending with liberalisation: crisis and recovery of the Argentine banking sector in the period of 1994 to 2011

Doyran, Mine Aysen; Erdogan, Emre - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 6 (2013) 3, pp. 261-283

From the early 1990s until 1998, Argentina liberalised its banking system as part of a strategy to enter a globalised economy. The subsequent monetary policies, combined with 'convertibilidad' and an elevated government debt, led to a loss of confidence in the financial system, ending in the...

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Undetected diabetes in Colombia

Vecino-Ortiz, Andres Ignacio; Trujillo, Antonio J.; … - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 4/5/6, pp. 362-373

Undetected diabetes (UD) worsens prognosis, increases healthcare costs and reduces productivity in the long term. However, its determinants have not been previously explored in developing countries. In this paper, we assess the determinants of UD in Colombia. We conducted logistic regression...

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Development policies and income inequality in selected developing regions, 1980-2010

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Martorano, Bruno - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2013

The paper discusses the income inequality changes which have taken place in a few representative developing regions during the last 30 years. While inequality rose in the majority of the countries of these regions in the 1980s and 1990s, the last decade was characterized by a bifurcation of...

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DOES TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION MATTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT? AN EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES

Lechman, Ewa - Wydział Zarządzania i Ekonomii, Politechnika Gdańska - 2013

Extraordinary spread of new information and communication (ICTs) technologies has been recognized worldwide. ICTs are … disadvantaged societies. They enable education, knowledge dissemination and sharing, processing and storing all kinds of information … highly probable. The paper seeks for empirical evidence in existing quantitative links between process of information and …

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The environment as a strategic priority in the European Union–Brazil partnership: is the EU behaving as a normative power or soft imperialist?

Afionis, Stavros; Stringer, Lindsay - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 14 (2014) 1, pp. 47-64

In 2007, Brazil entered the European Union’s (EU) list of strategic partners; a token of recognition of the place Brazil occupies in current global affairs. Although promoting bilateral environmental convergence is a stated priority, cooperation between the EU and Brazil in this policy field...

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Public sector efficiency: evidence for Latin America

Afonso, António; Romero, Alma; Monsalve, Emma - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2013

We compute Public Sector Performance (PSP) and Public Sector Efficiency (PSE) indicators and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) efficiency scores for a sample of twenty-three Latin American and Caribbean Countries (LAC) to measure efficiency of public spending for the period 2001-2010. Our results...

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Reclaiming the Land, Reclaiming the Nation: Adjacent or Twin Questions?

Moraes, Reginaldo C. - In: Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy 1 (2012) 1, pp. 65-83

This article explores the relationship between the agrarian and national questions. It is argued that the ambiguities and gaps in the developmental theories after the Second World War have been progressively unveiled by the more successful processes of capitalist development of the twentieth...

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