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Inflation Experiences in Latin America, 2007-2008 [PDF]
This paper looks briefly at the recent inflation experiences of ten Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Bolivia.
David Rosnick, Mark Weisbrot
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Latin America: Terrorism Issues [PDF]
, 2013 [Excerpt] For most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, threats emanating from terrorism are low. Terrorism in the region is largely perpetrated by groups in Colombia and by the remnants of radical leftist Andean groups.
Beittel, June S, Sullivan, Mark P
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Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationOBJECTIVE: In the past ten years effective treatments for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia have been evaluated and identified following large trials and systematic reviews. We investigated the extent of those effective interventions’ implementation.
Pisake Lumbiganon +4 more
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“Who's breaking the law … not us, them!”: Inside immigration detention in Portugal
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we examine immigration detention in Portugal, a system whose daily operations and inherent violence are overlooked in both public and academic discourses. Even within community psychology, discussions on immigration detention have largely remained on the fringes of scholarly debates. Guided by a justice‐centered ecological lens,
Francesca Esposito +3 more
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Is Latin America Retreating From Individual Retirement Accounts? [PDF]
In 1981, Chile initiated old-age pension reforms that introduced mandatory funded individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and moved away from public systems. Beginning in the 1990s, ten other Latin American countries followed in Chile’s wake.
Esteban Calvo +2 more
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Brazilian Inequalities in the Global Balance: From Jogo Bonito to Jogo Diplomático
Latin American Research Review, 2017 This article connects two seemingly unrelated globalized processes of mobilization: the anti-FIFA demonstrations in Brazil and Brazil’s diplomatic offensive around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Felipe Cala Buendía
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Parasites & Vectors, 2020 Background Chagas disease is a parasitic infection transmitted by “kissing bugs” (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) that has a huge economic impact in Latin American countries.
Anita G. Villacís +8 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The growing diversity of the U.S. population, partly due to immigration, has called attention to scholars and practitioners to attend to immigrants' cultural beliefs, values, and ways of doing when designing interventions to promote health and wellbeing.
Yolanda Suarez‐Balcazar +10 more
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A Concise History of Exchange Rate Regimes in Latin America [PDF]
This paper analyzes the experience of the major Latin American countries including Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and others in the post-World-War period, up to the crisis caused by the collapse of the U.S. housing bubble.
Martín Rapetti, Roberto Frankel
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