Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World
Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World

Author: Jorge I Dominguez

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-17

Total Pages: 655

ISBN-13: 1317621840

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The Handbook of Latin America in the World explains how the Latin American countries have both reacted and contributed to changing international dynamics over the last 30 years. It provides a comprehensive picture of Latin America’s global engagement by looking at specific processes and issues that link governments and other actors, social and economic, within the region and beyond. Leading scholars offer an up-to-date state of the field, theoretically and empirically, thus avoiding a narrow descriptive approach. The Handbook includes a section on theoretical approaches that analyze Latin America’s place in the international political and economic system and its foreign policy making. Other sections focus on the main countries, actors, and issues in Latin America’s international relations. In so doing, the book sheds light on the complexity of the international relations of selected countries, and on their efforts to act multilaterally. The Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World is a must-have reference for academics, researchers, and students in the fields of Latin American politics, international relations, and area specialists of all regions of the world.

El Emprendimiento en América Latina
El Emprendimiento en América Latina

Author: Daniel Lederman

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1464802858

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El emprendimiento es un determinante fundamental del crecimiento y la creación de empleo. Pese a que los emprendedores abundan en América Latina y el Caribe, las empresas de la región son más pequeñas y menos propensas a crecer e innovar que las de otras regiones. El crecimiento de la productividad lleva décadas siendo mediocre y el reciente period de auge de las materias primas no ha supuesto una excepción. Así pues, la presencia de emprendedores dinámicos será necesaria para impulsar la creación de puestos de trabajo de calidad y la aceleración del crecimiento de la productividad en la región. En El emprendimiento en América Latina: muchas empresas y poca innovación se estudia el panorama del emprendimiento en América Latina y el Caribe. El libro recurre a nuevas bases de datos que abordan cuestiones como la creación de empresas, las dinámicas empresariales, las decisiones de exportar y el comportamiento de las corporaciones multinacionales y sintetiza los resultados de un análisis exhaustivo del estatus, las perspectivas y los retos del emprendimiento en la región. Asimismo, el libro suministra herramientas útiles e información para ayudar a los profesionales y responsables de las políticas a identificar los ámbitos de las mismas que los gobiernos pueden explorar para impulsar la innovación e incentivar el emprendimiento transformador con potencial de crecimiento elevado.

External Powers in Latin America
External Powers in Latin America

Author: Gian Luca Gardini

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-21

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1000375382

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This book examines the role of external powers in Latin America in the 21st century. Non-traditional partners have significantly increased their political and economic engagement with the continent. Five key questions arise: why has this surge taken place; when has it happened; in which regions and sectors is it mostly felt; what is the Latin American perspective; and what are the actual results? The book analyses 16 case studies: the United States, the European Union, China, Russia, Japan, Canada, India, Turkey, Iran, Israel, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, the ASEAN countries, South Africa and Australia. The spectrum of existing explanations in the literature spans from neo-extractivism to South-South cooperation. This volume places them in context and proposes a more multifaceted approach, stressing a combination of systemic factors and internal dynamics both in Latin America and in the external partner countries. Geopolitics still matters and so do nation states, their interests and leaders. Ultimately, this surge in engagement has largely reproduced past patterns. Are new partners that different from the old ones?

The Gospel after Christendom
The Gospel after Christendom

Author: Ryan K. Bolger

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1441238719

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Emerging and missional church movements are an increasingly global phenomenon; they exist as holistic communities that defy dualistic Western forms of church. Until now, many of the voices from these movements have gone unheard. In this volume, Ryan Bolger assembles some of the most innovative church leaders from around the world to share their candid insider stories about how God is transforming their communities in an entirely new era for the church. Bolger's new book continues the themes that he and Eddie Gibbs established formally in their critically acclaimed Emerging Churches and situates new church movements within this rubric. It explores what's happening now in innovative church movements in continental Europe, Asia, and Latin American and in African American hip-hop cultures. Featuring an international cast of contributors, the book explores the changes occurring both in emerging cultures and in emerging and missional churches across the globe today.

The Making Of Social Movements In Latin America
The Making Of Social Movements In Latin America

Author: Arturo Escobar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0429964854

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This book, paying attention to the axes of identity, strategy, and democracy, grew out of the authors' shared and growing interest in contemporary social movements and the vast theoretical literature on these movements produced during the 1980s, particularly in Latin America and Western Europe.

Latin America's Turbulent Transitions
Latin America's Turbulent Transitions

Author: Roger Burbach

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-02-14

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1848135696

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Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have turned toward radical left governments - specifically in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Why has this profound shift taken place and how does this new, so-called Twenty-First-Century Socialism actually manifest itself? What are we to make of the often fraught relationship between the social movements and governments in these countries and do, in fact, the latter even qualify as 'socialist' in reality? These are the bold and critical questions that Latin America's Turbulent Transitions explores. The authors provocatively argue that although US hegemony in the region is on the wane, the traditional socialist project is also declining and something new is emerging. Going beyond simple conceptions of 'the left', the book reveals the true underpinnings of this powerful, transformative, and yet also complicated and contradictory process.

Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author: Augusto de la Torre

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 082138936X

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During the 1980s and 1990s, financial sectors were the Achilles heel of economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Since then, these sectors have grown and deepened, becoming more integrated and competitive, with new actors, markets, and instruments springing up and financial inclusion broadening. To crown these achievements, the region s financial systems were left largely unscathed by the global financial crisis of 2008 09. Now that the successes of LAC s macrofinancial stability are widely recognized and tested, it is high time for an in-depth stocktaking of what remains to be done. Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Road Ahead provides both a stocktaking and a forward-looking assessment of the region s financial development. Rather than going into detail about sector-specific issues, the report focuses on the main architectural issues, overall perspectives, and interconnections. The report s value added thus hinges on its holistic view of the development process, its broad coverage of the financial services industry beyond banking, its emphasis on benchmarking, its systemic perspective, and its explicit effort to incorporate the lessons from the recent global financial crisis. Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Road Ahead builds on and complements several overview studies on financial development in both LAC countries and the developing world that were published in the past decade. It will be of interest to policy makers and financial analysts interested in improving the financial sector in the LAC region.

2da Muestra Centroamericana de Arte Emergente
2da Muestra Centroamericana de Arte Emergente

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13:

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Catalogue of art works selected from the more than 110 emerging artists from the region who participated in the 2nd Central American Exhibition of Emerging Art. Prized names included: Marcos Agudelo (Nicaragua, Canada, Video project, 2006), Miguel Fábrega (Panamá, Alicia en el país de las maravillas, painting, 2006) and Dios es Dior (digital photography, 2006), Marco Luque (Panamá, Control demográfico, digital prints, 2006), Celeste Ponce (Honduras) Ser piente / Es cooltura (intervened objects, 2006), Ángel Poyon (Guatemala), Área de traslado (drawings, 2006), Sandra Trejos (Costa Rica, Puerta de Brandemburgo: 60 años, digital photography, 2006) with special mentions for José Campos (Costa Rica, Stand modelo de la 1ra feria de las no-transnacionales, photo-installation, 2006), Eduardo Chang (El Salvador, Made in Chang, digital photography, 2006), Ana Urquilla (El Salvador, Quisiera dejar de comerme las uñas para ser más bonita y poder conseguir marido, photography, 2006), Francesco Bracci (Costa Rica, Balance y Contraste, intervention in the Municipal Park of La Sabana (metal & nylon, 2006).