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Philosophical anthropology --- Sociology of culture --- Economic sociology --- Latin America
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Este libro analiza cuatro areas importantes de reforma institucional: las instituciones politicas y la organizacion del Estado; las instituciones fiscales, como las dedicadas a presupuestos, impuestos y descentralizacion; las instituciones publicas a cargo de las politicas economicas sectoriales (financieras, industriales y de infraestructura); y las instituciones del sector social (pensiones, proteccion social y educacion). En cada una de estas areas, los autores resumen los objetivos de la reforma, describen y miden su alcance, evaluan los resultados principales e identifican los obstaculos a la implementacion, en especial los de naturaleza institucional.
Academic Qualifications --- Construction Of Schools --- Curriculum --- Demand Of Education --- Spanish Translation
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Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980's, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or ""second generation"" reforms. The State of State Reform in Latin America reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a) political institutions and the state organization; b) fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c) public institutions in charge of...
Latin America --- Amérique latine --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Structural adjustment (Economic policy) --- -Structural adjustment (Economic policy) --- #SBIB:328H32 --- #SBIB:35H6040 --- 330.972 --- Economic policy --- Instellingen en beleid: Midden en Latijns-Amerika --- Bestuur en beleid: nationale en regionale studies: Latijns-Amerika --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- Politics and government. --- Economic policy. --- Economic conditions --- -Social policy. --- Amérique latine --- Latin America -- Economic policy. --- Latin America -- Politics and government. --- Latin America -- Social policy. --- Government - Non-U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Government - Central & South America
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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 also its surroundings. Life satisfaction, though less measurable, can be approximated using a simple survey question. Those measurements can be used to answer questions such as the following:. What
Quality of life --- Cities and towns --- Latin America --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance
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Social stratification --- Social change --- Income --- Latin America
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World Development Indicators 2014 provides a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help users of all kinds-policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers, and citizens-find and use data related to all aspects of development, including those that help monitor and understand progress toward the two goals. Six themes are used to organize indicators-world view, people, environment, economy, states and markets, and global links. As in past editions, World view reviews.
Economic development --- Economic-history 1990 --- Social indicators. --- Statistics.
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For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that since geography is unchangeable, there is no reason why public policies should take it into account. In fact, charges that geographic interpretations of development were deterministic, or even racist, made the subject a virtual taboo in academic and policymaking circles alike. Is Geography Destiny? Challenges that premise and joins a growing body of literature studying the links between geography and development.Focusing on Latin America, the book argues that based on a better understanding of geography, public policy can help control or channel i
Economic geography --- Latin America --- Economic geography. --- Géographie économique --- Amérique latine --- Economic conditions. --- Conditions économiques --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Geography --- Commercial geography
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Taxes --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Latin America
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