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  • Toward More Efficient and Effective Public Social Spending in Central America

    by Pablo Acosta, Rita Almeida, Thomas Gindling, Christine Lao Pena ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Human Development
    Central America has come a long way both in terms of economic and political stability. Increasingly the region is focusing on implementing productivity-enhancing reforms as well as supporting reductions in poverty and inequality. This report analyzes recent trends in public social spending in Central America from 2007 to 2014, conducts international benchmarking, examines measures of 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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  • Job Creation In Latin America And The Caribbean: Recent Trends And Policy Challenges

    by Pages Carmen; Pierre Gaelle; Scarpetta Stefano ...
    This book analyzes recent labor market trends in Latin American countries and the factors that underlie the failure to create more and more productive and rewarding jobs, a failure with substantial political and social costs. The authors analyze how growth and job creation in the region's economies compare with other emerging countries, the impact of job creation and destruction on productivity ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Peru: Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group 2003-2009

    by World Bank ...
    This Peru Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group 2003-2009 is part of IEG?s country program evaluation series. To date IEG?s in-depth country evaluations have comprised IEG-WB Country Assistance Evaluations (CAEs) and IEG-IFC Country Impact Reviews (CIRs). Both the CAEs and CIRs have involved comprehensive evaluations of the respective institutions? activities in a country. In a pilot ... Read more

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  • 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

    $14.39 USD

  • 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

  • New Order and Progress

    Development and Democracy in Brazil

    by Ben Ross Schneider ...
    Ben Ross Schneider's volume, New Order and Progress takes a thorough look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspective of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic star of the BRIC that many predicted it would be, but also documents the gains that Brazil has made ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Natural Disasters, Foreign Trade and Agriculture in Mexico

    Public Policy for Reducing Economic Vulnerability

    by Sergio O. Saldaña Zorrilla, PhD ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This work responds to the increasing global need of measuring and analyzing impacts, vulnerabilities and coping capacity of countries, regions and communities regarding climate change, extreme weather conditions, natural disasters and institutional constraints. The case of Mexico, analyzed in this work, provides lessons for further developing countries to assess natural disasters vulnerability, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Tax Evasion and the Rule of Law in Latin America

    The Political Culture of Cheating and Compliance in Argentina and Chile

    by Marcelo Bergman ...
    Few tasks are as crucial for the future of democracy in Latin America—and, indeed, in other underdeveloped areas of the world—as strengthening the rule of law and reforming the system of taxation.In this book, Marcelo Bergman shows how success in getting citizens to pay their taxes is related intimately to the social norms that undergird the rule of law. The threat of legal sanctions is itself ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Raising Student Learning In Latin America: The Challenge For The 21st Century

    by Vegas Emiliana; Petrow Jenny ...
    In the effort to meet enrollment targets for compulsory education in Latin America, the drive to achieve universal coverage seems to have left education quality behind. In the face of meager student performance, understanding what and how students are learning have emerged as salient issues facing policy makers in a region that has already achieved considerable success in the area of access to ... Read more

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  • Beyond Contributory Pensions

    Fourteen Experiences with Coverage Expansion in Latin America

    Edited by Rafael Rofman, Ignacio Apella, Evelyn Vezza ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Human Development
    Latin America's population is aging, and many among the growing elderly population are not protected by traditional pension schemes. In response, policy makers have been reevaluating their income protection systems so that between 2000 and 2013, the majority of Latin American countries reformed their social pension schemes to provide near-universal coverage for the elderly. Before this ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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