In Latin America
AIR PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION IN LATIN AMERICA
... This article is a qualitative, inductive interpretive and reasoning. Results were achieved through a multiple-methods approach, combining archival research with the descriptive, single case study, which unit of analysis ...
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Understanding reform in Latin America
... in Latin America, we use one of the most comprehensive attempts at measuring reforms, by Eduardo Lora and collaborators at the Inter-American Development ...19 Latin American countries for the ...
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Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean
... As suggested above, all these possibilities make sense, and there is some evidence to support each of them. To illustrate this, Figure 2 presents cross-country scatter plots of each of the four measures of informality ...
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Agent banking in Latin America
... banking has been adopted and implemented with varying degrees of success by a number of developing countries, particularly in Latin America. Brazil is often recognized as a global pioneer in this area since ...
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Growth and External Financing in Latin America
... that Latin America received mainly portfolio flows while other emerging markets, such as the Asian crisis countries, received mainly bank loans? Here we venture to suggest one factor that may have been ...
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Transport Policies in Latin America
... The Metrobus-Q system is currently conceived as a series of exclusive pub- lic transport corridors localized in Quito's main vehicular axes. Its central goals are 1. Consolidate a public-private alliance with operators; ...
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Prevalence of retinopathy of prematurity in Latin America
... Only papers on prevalence of ROP are included in Table 1. Papers concerning aspects of ROP other than prevalence were included to collect data on guidelines and neonatal care procedures that could affect the prevalence ...
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Fertility and contraceptive use in Latin America
... in Latin America continue to differ markedly from other world ...fertility, Latin America is characterized by exceptionally high levels of teenage childbearing (Rodríguez ...
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FDI in Latin America: The case of Peru
... the Latin American and the Caribbean countries have attracted a significant amount of FDI inflow, taking into consideration the economic problems observed worldwide because of the financial crisis (Olapido, ...six ...
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Organic Farming in Latin America and the Caribbean
... in Latin America is not moving forward because the main customers from Europe and the US ask only for the best pieces (hindquarter: sirloin tenderloin and pistol ...
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Dependency and Development in Latin America
... all Latin American countries (with one or two exceptions) and assumed a frame of reference which stressed the old fashioned type of imperialist exploitation with its attendant rein- forcement of oligarchic and ...
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ICT in Latin America: A Microdata Analysis
... Shifting the attention to individual-specific variables, we are able to evaluate drivers of intra-household technology diffusion. As expected, education is the main driver of the Internet use conditional on access, being ...
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Corporate Governance in Latin America
... One of the key challenges in Latin America is the effective enforcement of legal standards. Improving the judicial means of enforcement should be viewed as a policy step that reinforces legal reform. A ...
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Export Diversification Dynamics in Latin America
... Figure 11 shows the different margins of the export diversification by using the Theil Index. As we can see, the low diversification degree is mainly explained by the intensive margin, or in others words, the main export ...
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Media, hegemony, and polarization in Latin America
... The news media have always been considered an essential pillar of liberal democracy: the fourth estate. It is not a coincidence that this fourth estate underpinned the transition from authoritarian rule to liberal ...
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Innovation surveys in Latin America: a primer
... in Latin American started more than ten years ...in Latin American countries, the Bogota Manual (RICyT, 2001) did later formulate a set of methodological guidelines that were followed by many of the ...
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On intergenerational (im)mobility in Latin America
... Recent research points towards the importance of early childhood development (ECD)—comprising cognitive and emotional development as well as adequate health and nutrition—in boosting opportunities for the disadvantaged ...
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University virtualisation in Latin America
... In Latin America, there is a general lack of fully online university education, with the very recent exception of a few countries. This mode of teaching, which is fully mediated by digital environments, ...
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Networking Skills in Latin America
... multiple inputs to estimate the supply and demand for various levels of networking skills in eight key countries in Latin America.. • "Mobility wins" will be the top theme o[r] ...
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An overview of digital media in Latin America
... for Latin America, with emphasis on social and digital inclusion, is one of the topics of discussion of the Working Group on Digital Communications, Networks and Processes of the Latin American ...
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