Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality [PDF]
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a ...
Jeffrey G. Williamson
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Crime and violence in development : a literature review of Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]
The authors review the recent literature on crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean and present a broad overview of the main ideas and empirical findings.
Verner, Dorte, Heinemann, Alessandra
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Transformações do literário: a politização do corpo e do desejo em Caio Fernando Abreu e Jaime Bayly
Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, 2011 The articulation of a queer epistemology allows us to think about textuality as a place of dramatization of a politicfiction that questions the heteronormative patterns of sex and gender, and proposes a strategy of resistance based both on bodies and ...
Anselmo Peres Alós
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Redistribution, Insurance and Incentives to Work in Latin American Pension Programs [PDF]
We present a new database of social security indicators for eleven Latin American countries designed to show how much they promise to pay in return to contributions. The indicators are based on micro-simulations according to existing norms.
Alvaro Forteza, Guzmán Ourens
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Discrimination in Latin America: An Economic Perspective [PDF]
, 2010 This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group formation, and the impact of migration in poor families to ...
Inter-American Development Bank
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Foreign exchange intervention and central bank independence: The Latin American experience
Employing data from 13 Latin American countries, we find that greater central bank independence is associated with lesser intervention in the foreign exchange market, and also with leaning-against-the-wind intervention.
Nunes, Mauricio, Da Silva, Sergio
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The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
Mora, 2020 María José Punte
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Regulatory Design and Long-Term Growth: Insights from China's Experience for Latin America. [PDF]
F1000ResValdiglesias J.
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Banking Sector Performance in Latin America: Market Power versus Efficiency [PDF]
TSince the mid-1990s the banking sector in the Latin American emerging markets has experienced profound changes due to financial liberalisation, a significant increase in foreign investments and greater mergers activities often occurring following ...
Jesus G. Garza-Garcia +2 more
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Trends in Early-Onset Cancer Incidence Rates in Latin America: A Scoping Review Protocol. [PDF]
Health Sci RepVasconcellos VF +13 more
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