Market Liberalizations and Emigration from Latin America
Market Liberalizations and Emigration from Latin America

Author: Jon Jonakin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1351337688

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Market Liberalizations and Emigration From Latin America provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the era of liberalization in Latin America, focusing in particular on labor markets and emigration from the region. Starting in 1980, liberalization in Latin America was expected to improve market functioning, efficiency, and welfare. Instead, it yielded slower growth, unexpectedly high levels of unemployment and income inequality, flat or falling wages, an increase in non-tradeable (service sector) and informal activity, and, finally, waves of emigration from Mexico, Central America, and Ecuador, among other countries. This book provides a heterodox narrative explanation of why the orthodox economic model that underwrote the standard ‘trickle-down’ account served more to obscure and obfuscate than to explain and clarify the state-of-affairs. The book investigates the impact of the global-scale liberalizations of markets for goods and physical and finance capital and the mere national-scale liberalization of regional labor markets, arguing that these asymmetric liberalizations, together, resulted in labor market failure and contributed in turn to the subsequent, undocumented migrant flow. The ultimate effect of the skewed scale of market liberalizations in Latin America disproportionately benefited capital at the expense of labor. Market Liberalizations and Emigration From Latin America will be of interest to researchers of economics and development in Latin America.

Contemporary Latin America
Contemporary Latin America

Author: Francisco Panizza

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2013-04-04

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1848136331

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Latin America has changed dramatically over the past few years. While the 1990s were dominated by the politically orthodoxy of the Washington Consensus and the political uniformity of centre right governments the first decade of the new century is being characterised by the emergence of a plurality of economic and political alternatives. In an overview of the history of the region over the past twenty-five years this book traces the intellectual and political origins of the Washington Consensus, assesses its impact on democracy and economic development and discusses whether the emergence of a variety of left-wing governments in the region represents a clear break with the politics and policies of the Washington Consensus. Clearly written and rigorously argued the book will be of interest to academics, students of Latin American politics and anybody interested in understanding contemporary Latin America.

Latin America After Neoliberalism
Latin America After Neoliberalism

Author: C. Wylde

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-09-18

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1137029676

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Wylde analyzes Kirchnerismo in Argentina and the developmental regime approach in the political economy of development in Latin America. He shows the systematic way in which relationships between state-market, state-society, and national-international dichotomies can be characterised within a developmentalist paradigm.

The Ghetto
The Ghetto

Author: Ray Hutchison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0429976143

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This book discusses more general consideration of marginalized urban spaces and peoples around the globe. It considers the question: Is the formation and later dissolution of the Jewish ghetto an appropriate model for understanding the experience of other ethnic or racial populations?

Latin American Politics
Latin American Politics

Author: David Close

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1442636955

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Latin American Politics, Second Edition is a thematic introduction to the political systems of all 20 Latin American countries. The approach is self-consciously comparative and encourages students to develop stronger comparative analysis skills through such topics as history, violence, democracy, and political economy. Fully updated and revised, this second edition also includes a new chapter on parties, elections, and movements. Each chapter is now framed by a prologue and an epilogue to engage students and provide more country-specific content.

The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America
The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America

Author: Katherine Isbester

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1442601809

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Inviting in tone and organization but rigorous in its scholarship, this collection focuses on the problems, successes, and multiple forms of democracy in Latin America.

The Handbook of Spanish Language Media
The Handbook of Spanish Language Media

Author: Alan Albarran

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1135854300

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With the rise of Spanish language media around the world, no reference work is available that provides an overview of the field or its emerging issues. The Handbook of Spanish Language Media is intended to fill that need. The goal is to establish a Handbook that will become the definitive source for scholars interested in this emerging field of study; not only to provide background knowledge of the various issues and topics relevant to Spanish Language media, but also to establish directions for future research in this rapidly growing area.

Governance Ecosystems
Governance Ecosystems

Author: J. Sagebien

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-10-12

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0230353282

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The authors explore the complex dynamics of mining and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Latin America, including a reflection on the African continent, presenting arguments and case studies based on new research on a set of urgent and emerging questions surrounding mining, development and sustainability.