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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 ...
    Series Book 2 - CROP International Poverty Studies
    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

  • 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. ...
    Series series
    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

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    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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  • 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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  • 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

    $21.59 USD

  • 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

    $20.49 USD

  • 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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  • 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

    $23.79 USD

  • Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion

    Social Sector Reform in Latin America

    by Kurt Weyland ...
    Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar reform even though it threatened to exacerbate income disparity and jeopardize state revenues. And Chile's pension privatization of the early 1980s has spread throughout Latin America and beyond even though many poor countries that have ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Worker Mobility and Urban Policy in Latin America

    Policy Interactions and Urban Outcomes in Mexico City

    by David López-García ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    This book argues that urban outcomes are better understood as the result of the interactions between policies from distinct policy domains rather than from any single policy silo. In doing so, the book develops and applies the Policy Interactions Framework to the study of the mobility experience of workers in Greater Mexico City.Four empirical studies provide the reader with a comprehensive view ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Latin American Perspectives on the Sociology of Health and Illness

    Edited by Fernando De Maio, Ignacio Llovet, Graciela Dinardi ...
    The sociology of health and illness is a rapidly growing field. Yet, as a field, it has suffered from a remarkably limited perspective dominated by scholarship produced in the global north. Scholars in the sociology of health and illness have been late to enter debates in global health and have generally failed to learn lessons from work originating in the global south. To begin to address this ... Read more

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  • Protest State

    The Rise of Everyday Contention in Latin America

    by Mason W. Moseley ...
    Why is social protest a normal, almost routine form of political participation in certain Latin American democracies, but not others? In light of surging protests in countries like Argentina, Brazil, and Peru, this book answers this question through a focus on recent trends in the quality of governance and socioeconomic development in the region. Specifically, it argues that increasingly engaged ... Read more

    $85.49 USD