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  • State Policies and Migration

    Studiesin Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Peter Peek, Guy Standing ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1982, State Policies and Migration is a study on migration-related government action. This book consists of analyses of various rural reforms and industrial strategies in eight Latin American and Caribbean countries. The emphasis of the studies has been determined by the particular context of the country or region concerned, but in general the studies fall into three categories. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Blood of Extraction

    Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

    by Todd Gordon, Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Does North America Exist?

    Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11

    by Stephen Clarkson ...
    In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Clarkson asks whether North America "exists" in the sense that the European Union has made Europe exist.Clarkson's rigorous study of the many political and economic relationships that link Canada, the United States, and Mexico answers this unusual ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Democracy and the Left

    Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America

    by Evelyne Huber, John D. Stephens ...
    Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage.In Democracy and the Left, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens argue that the resurgence of democracy in Latin America is key to this change. In addition ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brazil

    Neoliberalism versus Democracy

    by Alfredo Saad-Filho, Lecio Morais ...
    Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was also responsible for wrecking the US-sponsored proposal for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. It is also one of the few large countries where social spending has risen and the distribution of income has improved in the last thirty years.However, as protests during ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Argentina under the Kirchners

    by Marcela Lopez Levy ...
    In 2003 Néstor Kirchner took power in a country still reeling from financial meltdown. He set out to reverse the extreme neo-liberal policies of the 1990s, and ruled through heady years of unprecedented economic growth. Néstor was one half of a political couple -- his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner won the race for the top job in 2007 and they swapped roles. In 2011 she was voted in for a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Spanish Socialist Party and the modernisation of Spain

    by Paul Kennedy ...
    Series series Critical Labour Movement Studies
    This book considers the most electorally successful political party in Spain, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), which was in government for two of the three decades since it won office under Felipe González in 1982. Providing rich historical background, the book’s main focus is on the period since General Franco’s death in 1975. It charts Spain’s modernisation under the PSOE, with a ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch

    Edited by Matias E. Margulis ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch offers an original analysis of global political economy by examining it through the ideas, agency and influence of one of its most important thinkers, leaders and personalities. Prebisch’s ground-breaking ideas as an economist – the terms-of-trade thesis and the economic case for state-led industrialization – changed the world and guided economic ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The New Extractivism

    A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century?

    by James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer ...
    In a primary commodities boom spurred on by the rise of China, countries the world over are turning to the extraction of natural resources and the export of primary commodities as an antidote to the global recession. The New Extractivism addresses a fundamental dilemma faced by these governments: to pursue, or not, a development strategy based on resource extraction in the face of immense social ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Institutional Pathways To Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps

    by Walton Michael; Bebbington Anthony J.; Dani Anis A.; de Haan Arjan ...
    Questions of equity and inequality have moved to the center of debates on development and poverty reduction. This reflects growing awareness that even countries with high rates of growth can experience stagnating or increasing inequality, and that inequality can itself limit the poverty reducing effects of growth. Indeed, recent work indicates that, in addition to its intrinsic value, equity ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mining in Latin America

    Critical Approaches to the New Extraction

    Edited by Kalowatie Deonandan, Michael L. Dougherty ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America. This shift has brought mining more visibly into global public debates and spurred a great deal of controversy and conflict. This volume assembles new scholarship that provides critical perspectives on these issues.The ... Read more

    $58.99 USD