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Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America

Rights and Social Protection in Unequal Societies

by Thomas Pogge, Ana Maria Osorio Mejía, Luis Fernando Aguado Quintero, Héctor E. Nájera Catalán, Jorge A. Paz, Yedith Guillén Fernández, Jorge I. Vásquez, Ianina Tunión, Agustín Salvia, Cristian Herrera, Alejandra Vives, Camila Carvallo, Helia Molina, Charles-Édouard De Suremain, Juan Antonio Vega Báez, Ma. Cristina Torrado, Ernesto Durán, Tatiana Casanova, Nelson Antequera D. ...

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This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. The authors clearly emphasize the need to develop new conceptual and practical avenues that can address ... Read more

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This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. The authors clearly emphasize the need to develop new conceptual and practical avenues that can address
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Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America

Rights and Social Protection in Unequal Societies

by Thomas Pogge, Ana Maria Osorio Mejía, Luis Fernando Aguado Quintero, Héctor E. Nájera Catalán, Robin Cavagnoud, Jorge A. Paz, Yedith Guillén Fernández, Jorge I. Vásquez, Ianina Tunión, Agustín Salvia, Cristian Herrera, Alejandra Vives, Camila Carvallo, Helia Molina, Charles-Édouard De Suremain, Juan Antonio Vega Báez, Ma. Cristina Torrado, Ernesto Durán, Tatiana Casanova, Nelson Antequera D., Camillo Pérez Bustillo ...

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This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. The authors clearly emphasize the need to develop new conceptual and practical avenues that can address ... Read more

$24.99 USD

This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. The authors clearly emphasize the need to develop new conceptual and practical avenues that can address
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Robotics

Joint Conference on Robotics, LARS 2014, SBR 2014, Robocontrol 2014, São Carlos, Brazil, October 18-23, 2014. Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Fernando S. Osório, Denis Fernando Wolf, Kalinka Castelo Branco, Valdir Grassi Jr., Marcelo Becker, Roseli Romero ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint Conference on Robotics, LARS, SBR, Robocontrol 2014, held in São Carlos, Brazil, in October 2014. The 8 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. The selected papers present a complete and solid reference of the state-of-the-art of intelligent robotics and automation research, covering the ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint Conference on Robotics, LARS, SBR, Robocontrol 2014, held in São Carlos, Brazil, in October 2014. The 8 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. The selected papers present a complete and solid reference of the state-of-the-art of intelligent robotics and automation research, covering the
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Robotics

12th Latin American Robotics Symposium and Third Brazilian Symposium on Robotics, LARS 2015/SBR 2015, Uberlândia, Brazil, October 28 - November 1, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Rogério Sales Gonçalves, Fernando Santos Osório ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Latin American Robotics Symposium and Third Brazilian Symposium on Robotics, LARS 2015 / SBR 2015, held in Uberlândia, Brazil, in October/November 2015. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The selected papers present a complete and solid reference of the state-of-the-art of ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Latin American Robotics Symposium and Third Brazilian Symposium on Robotics, LARS 2015 / SBR 2015, held in Uberlândia, Brazil, in October/November 2015. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The selected papers present a complete and solid reference of the state-of-the-art of
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Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America

Edited by Pedro López-Roldán, Sandra Fachelli ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the ... Read more

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This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the
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Migration Between Mexico and the United States

IMISCOE Regional Reader

Edited by Agustín Escobar Latapí, Claudia Masferrer ...

Series series IMISCOE Research Series
This open access Regional Reader describes how Mexico - United States migration changed substantially during the first decade of the 21st Century. The book provides an in-depth analysis on the changes in the flows into and out of both countries, thus highlighting the issues arising from Mexico - US migration as well as addressing the large numbers of adults and children entering Mexico from the ... Read more

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This open access Regional Reader describes how Mexico - United States migration changed substantially during the first decade of the 21st Century. The book provides an in-depth analysis on the changes in the flows into and out of both countries, thus highlighting the issues arising from Mexico - US migration as well as addressing the large numbers of adults and children entering Mexico from the
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Discrimination In Latin America: An Economic Perspective

by Nopo Hugo; Chong Alberto; Moro Andrea ...

Latin America has often been regarded as a region with deep ethnic and class conflicts. The difficulty of assessing this from an economic perspective is two fold: There is little solid, unbiased, and systematic data to provide convincing empirical evidence, and there is a dearth of empirical methods to identify specific discriminatory-based behavior as opposed to related behavior that might only ... Read more

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Latin America has often been regarded as a region with deep ethnic and class conflicts. The difficulty of assessing this from an economic perspective is two fold: There is little solid, unbiased, and systematic data to provide convincing empirical evidence, and there is a dearth of empirical methods to identify specific discriminatory-based behavior as opposed to related behavior that might only
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Applications of Evolutionary Computation

19th European Conference, EvoApplications 2016, Porto, Portugal, March 30 -- April 1, 2016, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Giovanni Squillero, Paolo Burelli ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two volumes LNCS 9597 and 9598 constitute the refereed conference proceedings of the 19th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in March/April 2016, co-located with the Evo* 2016 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART.The 57 revised full papers presented together with 17 poster papers were carefully reviewed and ... Read more

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The two volumes LNCS 9597 and 9598 constitute the refereed conference proceedings of the 19th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in March/April 2016, co-located with the Evo* 2016 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART.The 57 revised full papers presented together with 17 poster papers were carefully reviewed and
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Cuba’s Academic Advantage

Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School

by Martin Carnoy ...

In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks important questions about educational systems in general. How responsible should government be for ... Read more

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In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks important questions about educational systems in general. How responsible should government be for
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Latino Politics en Ciencia Política

The Search for Latino Identity and Racial Consciousness

by Tony Affigne, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Marion Orr ...

A "collection of cutting-edge research" on the political diversity of Latino communities: "a must-read for students and researchers alike" ( American Politics).Latinos constitute the largest, fastest-growing, and most diverse minority group in the United States. A critical voting bloc in both Presidential and Congressional races, this demographic will only become more important in future American ... Read more

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A "collection of cutting-edge research" on the political diversity of Latino communities: "a must-read for students and researchers alike" ( American Politics).Latinos constitute the largest, fastest-growing, and most diverse minority group in the United States. A critical voting bloc in both Presidential and Congressional races, this demographic will only become more important in future American
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Intelligent Computing Systems

First International Symposium, ISICS 2016, Mérida, México, March 16-18, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Anabel Martin-Gonzalez, Victor Uc-Cetina ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book contains the reviewed, accepted contributions of the First International Symposium on Intelligent Computing Systems (ISICS)that was held in Merida (Mexico) from 16-18 March 2016.We received 25 submissions from 13 countries. Each submission had been evaluated by at least three members of the Program Committee and external reviewers. Based on these reviews, 12 papers were selected for long ... Read more

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This book contains the reviewed, accepted contributions of the First International Symposium on Intelligent Computing Systems (ISICS)that was held in Merida (Mexico) from 16-18 March 2016.We received 25 submissions from 13 countries. Each submission had been evaluated by at least three members of the Program Committee and external reviewers. Based on these reviews, 12 papers were selected for long
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Banking on Health

The World Bank and Health Sector Reform in Latin America

by Shiri Noy ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book addresses the puzzle of why the World Bank was unable to effect sweeping neoliberal health reforms in Latin America from the 1980s onward. Through the use of quantitative regional data together with interview and archival data collected during fieldwork in Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, and Washington DC, this book argues that the answer to this puzzle is twofold. First, the World Bank has ... Read more

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This book addresses the puzzle of why the World Bank was unable to effect sweeping neoliberal health reforms in Latin America from the 1980s onward. Through the use of quantitative regional data together with interview and archival data collected during fieldwork in Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, and Washington DC, this book argues that the answer to this puzzle is twofold. First, the World Bank has
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