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  • The State of State Reforms in Latin America

    by Stanford University Press ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Is Geography Destiny?

    Lessons from Latin America

    by Stanford University Press, John Luke Gallup, Alejandro Gaviria, Eduardo Lora ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that, since geography is unchangeable, there is no reason why public policies should take it into account. In fact, charges that geographic interpretations of development were deterministic, or even racist, made the subject a virtual taboo in academic and policymaking circles alike. 'Is Geography Destiny?' challenges that premise and joins a growing body ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Entrepreneurship in Latin America

    A Step Up the Social Ladder?

    Edited by Eduardo Lora, Francesca Castellani ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    Is entrepreneurship a path to social mobility in Latin America? This insightful exploration delves into the potential and limitations of entrepreneurship as a driver of social mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean.Edited by Eduardo Lora and Francesca Castellani, this volume examines the region's unique economic landscape, revealing the challenges and opportunities faced by entrepreneurs. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The State Of State Reform In Latin America

    by Lora Eduardo ...
    Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or "second generation" reforms. The State of State Reform in Latin America reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Quality Of Life In Latin American Cities: Markets And Perception

    by Lora Eduardo; Powell Andrew; van Praag Bernard M.S.; Sanguinetti Pablo ...
    This book explores a new method of monitoring the quality of urban life, combining objective and subjective information to assess quality of life by using the market price of housing and individuals' life satisfaction in six Latin American cities: Bogota, Buenos Aires, Lima, Medellin, Montevideo and San Jose. Housing prices show how the market values characteristics of not only a house itself, but ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Entrepreneurship in Latin America

    A Step Up the Social Ladder?

    Edited by Eduardo Lora, Francesca Castellani ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    This book looks at both the potential and limits of policies to promote entrepreneurship as an important vehicle for social mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean. Who are the regions entrepreneurs? They tend to be middle-aged males with secondary and, often, tertiary education who represent only a small segment of the economically-active population in the six countries considered in this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • More than Revenue

    Taxation as a Development Tool

    by Inter-American Development Bank, Ana Corbacho, Vicente Fretes Cibils, Eduardo Lora ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This exciting new volume provides an up-to-date overview of the current state of taxation in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, its main reform needs, and possible reform strategies that take into account the likely economic, institutional, and political constraints on the reform process. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Is Geography Destiny? : Lessons From Latin America

    by Gallup John Luke; Gaviria Alejandro; Lora Eduardo ...
    Customers in the US and Canada please order from Stanford University Press at (800) 621-2736 or visit their website at www.sup.org. For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that since geography is unchangeable, there is no reason why public policies should take it into account. In fact, charges that geographic interpretations of development were deterministic, or even racist, made the subject a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Is Geography Destiny? : Lessons From Latin America

    by Gallup John Luke; Gaviria Alejandro; Lora Eduardo ...
    Customers in the US and Canada please order from Stanford University Press at (800) 621-2736 or visit their website at www.sup.org. For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that since geography is unchangeable, there is no reason why public policies should take it into account. In fact, charges that geographic interpretations of development were deterministic, or even racist, made the subject a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Residential Segregation Patterns of Latinos in the United States, 1990-2000

    by Michael E Martin ...
    Series series Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    Historically, residential segregation of Latinos has generally been seen as a result of immigration and the process of self-segregation into ethnic enclaves. The only theoretical exception to ethnic enclave Latino segregation has been the structural inequality related to Latinos that have a high degree of African ancestry. This study of the 331 metropolitan area in the United States between 1990 ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development

    From neoliberalism to resource nationalism

    Edited by Paul A. Haslam, Pablo Heidrich ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Governments increased taxes and royalties on the resource sector, the nationalization of foreign firms returned to the mainstream economic policy agenda, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Continuity Despite Change

    The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America

    by Matthew E. Carnes ...
    Series series Social Science History
    As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation. To date, Latin America's labor laws remain both rigidly protective and remarkably diverse. Continuity Despite Change develops a new theoretical framework for understanding labor laws and their change through time, ... Read more

    $67.49 USD