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The biological standard of living in urban Bolivia, 1880s-1920s: Stagnation and persistent inequality
Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Peres-Cajías, José; … - 2019
Based on almost 5.000 direct observations on National Identification Cards, this paper offers the first estimation of the evolution of average heights in urban Bolivia for the decades 1880s-1920s. The analysis focuses on men aged 19-50 years registered in the city of La Paz. Despite city's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023765
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The biological standard of living in urban Bolivia, 1880s-1920s: Stagnation and persistent inequality
Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Peres-Cajías, José; … - 2019
Based on almost 5.000 direct observations on National Identification Cards, this paper offers the first estimation of the evolution of average heights in urban Bolivia for the decades 1880s-1920s. The analysis focuses on men aged 19-50 years registered in the city of La Paz. Despite city's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156998
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The biological standard of living in urban Bolivia, 1880s-1920s : stagnation and persistent inequality
Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Peres-Cajías, José; … - 2019 - This version: June 2019
Based on almost 5.000 direct observations on National Identification Cards, this paper offers the first estimation of the evolution of average heights in urban Bolivia for the decades 1880s-1920s. The analysis focuses on men aged 19-50 years registered in the city of La Paz. Despite city's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023746
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The biological standard of living in urban Bolivia, 1880s-1920s: stagnation and persistent inequality
Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Peres-Cajías, José; … - 2019
Based on almost 5.000 direct observations on National Identification Cards, this paper offers the first estimation of the evolution of average heights in urban Bolivia for the decades 1880s-1920s. The analysis focuses on men aged 19-50 years registered in the city of La Paz. Despite city's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028520
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La Reconversión de la Izquierda Latinoamericana
Kornblum, Pablo - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2010) 12, pp. 171-188
Inequality is the keyword to understand why Latin-America Left, restructured as democratic and dialogging, emerged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784322
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Populism and Neopopulism in Latin America: Clientelism, Trade Union Organisation and Electoral Support in Mexico and Argentina in the ‘90s
Ronchi, Veronica - 2007
mediation between the leader and the masses. The development of selected social policies has gained strong political support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312402
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The Neoliberal Myth in Latin America: The Cases of Mexico and Argentina in the ‘90s
Ronchi, Veronica - 2007
During the '90s most Latin American countries were submitted to neoliberal structural reform policies. Neoliberal policies imposed market supremacy, reduced the State's role in the economy and deregulated the markets. This paper aims at describing how these policies affected the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312607
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The Neoliberal Myth in Latin America : The Cases of Mexico and Argentina in the '90s
Ronchi, Veronica - 2007
During the '90s most Latin American countries were submitted to neoliberal structural reform policies. Neoliberal policies imposed market supremacy, reduced the State's role in the economy and deregulated the markets. This paper aims at describing how these policies affected the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730192
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The Evolution of Inequality in Latin America in the 21st Century : Patterns, Drivers and Causal Hypotheses
Bogliacino, Francesco - 2017
In this article, we show the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st … century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960505
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No reversal of fortune in the long run: geography and spatial persistence of prosperity in Colombia, 1500-2005
Meisel, Adolfo - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2014
This paper examines the non-reversal of fortune thesis proposed by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2002) in the light of the Colombian experience over the last 500 years. Using a total of 14 national population censuses and the record of tributary Indians in 1559, it is found that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889037