Cashing in on Education: Women, Childcare, and Prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean, Mercedes Mateo Diaz, Lourdes Rodriguez-Chamussy

Автор: Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino
Название: TV Female Foursomes and Their Fans: Featuring The Golden Girls, Designing Women, Living Single, Sex and the City, Girlfriends, Cashmere Mafia and Hot in Cleveland
ISBN: 0786458526 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786458523
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Описание: The Golden Girls, Designing Women, Living Single, Sex and the City, Girlfriends and Hot in Cleveland stand out as some of America`s favorite television series. Connecting fan commentary with analysis by television scholars, this collection of essays explores the development of these series, with a focus on the role of fan cultures in "reproducing" these popular American shows.

Автор: Penvenne, Jeanne Marie
Название: Women, migration & the cashew economy in southern mozambique
ISBN: 1847011284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847011282
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: Analyses the lives and livelihoods of the female cashew shellers in Mozambique`s capital in the colonial era, during which the industry grew to be a major export, and relates how the women played a fundamental, but previously underappreciated, role in the colony`s economy.

Автор: John Weeks
Название: Structural Adjustment and the Agricultural Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
ISBN: 0333637852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333637852
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: As a result of the regional debt crisis, governments of Latin America in the 1980s entered into a process of policy change, with an emphasis upon market liberalization. This book, with contributors from Latin America and Europe, surveys the effects on agriculture of a decade of policy change.

Автор: Dmytraczenko & Almeida
Название: Toward Universal Health Coverage And Equity In Latin America And The Caribbean
ISBN: 1464804540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781464804540
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Описание: Over the past three decades, many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have recognized health as a human right. Since the early 2000s, 46 million more people in the countries studied are covered by health programs with explicit entitlements to care. Reforms have been accompanied by a rise in public spending for health, financed largely by general revenues that prioritize or explicitly target the population without capacity to pay. Political commitment has generally translated into larger budgets as well as passage of legislation that ring-fenced funding for health. Most countries have prioritized cost-effective primary care and have adopted purchasing methods that incentivize efficiency and accountability for results and that give stewards of the health sector greater leverage to steer providers to deliver on public health priorities. Despite progress, disparities remain in financing and quality of services provision across health subsystems. Delivering on the commitment to universal health coverage will require concerted efforts to improve revenue generation in a fiscally sustainable manner and to increase the productivity of expenditures. In Toward Universal Health Coverage and Equity in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Select Countries, the authors show that evidence from an analysis of 54 household surveys corroborates that investments in extending coverage are yielding results. Although the poor still have worse health outcomes than do the rich, disparities have narrowed considerably -- particularly in the early stages of life. Countries have reached high levels of coverage and equity in utilization of maternal and child health services. The picture is more nuanced, and not nearly as positive, regarding adult health status and prevalence of chronic conditions and illnesses. Coverage of noncommunicable disease interventions is not as high, and service utilization is still skewed toward those who are better off. Prevalence of noncommunicable diseases has not behaved as expected given the drop in mortality; better access to diagnosis among wealthier individuals may be masking changes in actual prevalence. Catastrophic health expenditures have declined in most countries. The picture regarding equity, however, is mixed, pointing to limitations in the measure. Although the rate of impoverishment owing to health expenditures is low and generally declining, 2 4 million people in the countries studied still fall below the poverty line after health spending. Efforts to systematically monitor quality of care in the region are still in their infancy. Nonetheless, a review of the literature reveals important shortcomings in quality of care, as well as substantial differences across subsystems. Improving quality of care and ensuring sustainability of investments in health remain an unfinished agenda."

Автор: Augusto de la Torre
Название: Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Securing the Benefits and Avoiding the Fault Lines
ISBN: 0821388479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821388471
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Описание: The financial systems of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have been widely resilient to the global financial crisis, but this book examines several key questions. Does LAC continue to underperform on some key financial development indicators and, if so, why? How can LAC`s financial systems contribute more effectively to the region`s welfare and growth? And how can LAC secure the benefits of deepening financial development?

Название: Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2018
ISBN: 9211219930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211219937
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Описание: This publication sets out and analyses the main foreign direct investment (FDI) trends in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2017, certain trends that had already emerged in the global economic landscape became more established. In particular, announcements of potential restrictions on trade and pressures to relocate production to developed countries were confirmed. At the same time, China has taken steps to restrict outflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in order to align these flows with its strategic plan. Adding to these factors is the expansion of digital technologies, whose international expansion requires smaller investments in tangible assets. Firms in these areas are heavily concentrated in the United States and China, which reduces the need for cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

Автор: Edgardo Perez Morales
Название: No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena`s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions
ISBN: 0826521916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826521910
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Описание: Following the 1808 French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, an unprecedented political crisis threw the Spanish Monarchy into turmoil. On the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, the important port town of Cartagena rejected Spanish authority, finally declaring independence in 1811. With new leadership that included free people of color, Cartagena welcomed merchants, revolutionaries, and adventurers from Venezuela, the Antilles, the United States, and Europe. Most importantly, independent Cartagena opened its doors to privateers of color from the French Caribbean. Hired mercenaries of the sea, privateers defended Cartagena's claim to sovereignty, attacking Spanish ships and seizing Spanish property, especially near Cuba, and establishing vibrant maritime connections with Haiti.Most of Cartagena's privateers were people of color and descendants of slaves who benefited from the relative freedom and flexibility of life at sea, but also faced kidnapping, enslavement, and brutality. Many came from Haiti and Guadeloupe; some had been directly involved in the Haitian Revolution. While their manpower proved crucial in the early Anti-Spanish struggles, Afro-Caribbean privateers were also perceived as a threat, suspected of holding questionable loyalties, disorderly tendencies, and too strong a commitment to political and social privileges for people of color. Based on handwritten and printed sources in Spanish, English, and French, this book tells the story of Cartagena's multinational and multicultural seafarers, revealing the Trans-Atlantic and maritime dimensions of South American independence.

Название: Money from the Government in Latin America
ISBN: 0815387377 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815387374
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book looks at how conditional cash transfer programmes have affected the lives of rural communities in Latin America since the schemes appeared on the scene twenty years ago. With case studies ranging from Chile, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Colombia, this book will interest scholars of anthropology, sociology, development, economics and politics.

Автор: Charles Hatfield
Название: The Limits of Identity: Politics and Poetics in Latin America
ISBN: 1477305432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781477305430
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José Marti and José Enrique Rodo) and contemporary theorists (such as John Beverley and Doris Sommer), Charles Hatfield reveals and challenges the anti-universalism that informs seemingly disparate theoretical projects. The Limits of Identity offers a critical reexamination of widely held conceptions of culture, ideology, interpretation, and history. The repudiation of universalism, Hatfield argues, creates a set of problems that are both theoretical and political. Even though the recognition of identity and difference is normally thought to be a form of resistance, The Limits of Identity claims that, in fact, the opposite is true.

Автор: Silva Eduardo, Rossi Federico
Название: Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America: From Resisting Neoliberalism to the Second Incorporation
ISBN: 0822965127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822965121
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Описание: This volume examines the role played in Latin America`s second wave of incorporation by political parties, trade unions, and social movements in five cases: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Автор: United Nations
Название: Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes: The Recent Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean
ISBN: 9211217571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211217575
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Описание: "This document was prepared ... in the framework of the component `Social assistance: poverty reduction and income redistribution through conditional transfer programs` of the ECLAC/Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) Cooperation Programme 2010-2011 `Social protection and social inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean`."--Title page verso.

Автор: Cord, Genoni & Rodriguez-Castela
Название: Shared Prosperity And Poverty Eradication In Latin America And The Caribbean
ISBN: 1464803579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781464803574
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Описание: "Over the last decade Latin America and the Caribbean region has achieved important progress towards the World Bank Group's goals of eradicating extreme poverty and boosting income growth of the bottom 40 percent, propelled by remarkable economic growth and falling income inequality. Despite this impressive performance, social progress has not been uniform over this period, and certain countries, subregions and even socioeconomic groups participated less in the growth process. As of today, more than 75 million people still live in extreme poverty in the region (using $2.50/day/capita), half of them in Brazil and Mexico, and extreme poverty rates top 40 percent in Guatemala and reach nearly 60 percent in Haiti. This means that extreme poverty is still an important issue in both low- and middle-income countries in the region. As growth wanes and progress in reducing the still high levels of inequality in the region slows, it will be more important than ever for governments to focus policies on inclusive growth. The book includes an overview that highlights progress towards the goals of poverty eradication and shared prosperity between 2003 and 2012, unpacks recent gains at the household level using an income-based asset model, and examines some of the policy levers used to affect social outcomes in the region. It draws on 13 country studies, eight of which are featured in this volume: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. The other case studies include: Bolivia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Honduras, which will be included in the web version of the book."