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  • Deindustrialization in Chile

    by Jaime Gatica Barros ...
    This book analyzes the performance of the manufacturing sector in Chile from 1974 to 1982, looking specifically at the effect of the "neoconservative" or "monetarist experiment" implemented in Chile during that period on the behavior of the Chilean industrial sector. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Identities on the Move

    Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities

    by David Walton, María José Coperías Aguilar, Logie Barrow, Mariam Bazi, Rocío Carrasco Carrasco, Concepción Parrondo Carretero, Laura Gillman, Eduardo Barros Grela, Inmaculada Pineda Hernandez, María Elena Jaime de Pablos, Kate Joseph, Cynthia Lytle, Lucia Garcia Magaldi, Angelita Reyes, Antje Schuhmann ...
    The development of new sexualities and gender identities has become a crucial issue in the field of literary and cultural studies in the first years of the twenty-first century. The roles of gender and sexual identities in the struggle for equality have become a major concern in both fields. The legacy of this process has its origins in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the twentieth ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Measuring Inequality Of Opportunities In Latin America And The Caribbean

    by Ferreira Francisco H. G.; Molinas Vega Jose R; Paes de Barros Ricardo; Saavedra Chanduvi Jaime ...
    Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person's life chances. Success in life should depend on people's choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean introduces new methods for ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Palgrave Macmillan UK, Ricardo Paes de Barros, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Jose R Molinas Vega, Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi ...
    Series series Latin American Development Forum
    Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person's life chances. Success in life should depend on people's choices, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. 'Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean' introduces new methods for ... Read more

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  • Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America

    Edited by Pedro López-Roldán, Sandra Fachelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the ... Read more

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  • Migration Between Mexico and the United States

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Agustín Escobar Latapí, Claudia Masferrer ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access Regional Reader describes how Mexico - United States migration changed substantially during the first decade of the 21st Century. The book provides an in-depth analysis on the changes in the flows into and out of both countries, thus highlighting the issues arising from Mexico - US migration as well as addressing the large numbers of adults and children entering Mexico from the ... Read more

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  • Democracy and the Left

    Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America

    by Evelyne Huber, John D. Stephens ...
    Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage.In Democracy and the Left, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens argue that the resurgence of democracy in Latin America is key to this change. In addition ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Residential Segregation Patterns of Latinos in the United States, 1990-2000

    by Michael E Martin ...
    Series series Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    Historically, residential segregation of Latinos has generally been seen as a result of immigration and the process of self-segregation into ethnic enclaves. The only theoretical exception to ethnic enclave Latino segregation has been the structural inequality related to Latinos that have a high degree of African ancestry. This study of the 331 metropolitan area in the United States between 1990 ... Read more

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  • The International Migration Of Women

    by World Bank; Schiff Maurice; Morrison Andrew R.; Sjoblom Mirja ...
    The current share of women in the world's international migrant population is close to one half. Despite the great number of female migrants and their importance for the development agenda in countries of origin, there has until recently been a striking lack of gender analysis in the economic literature on international migration and development. This volume makes a valuable contribution in this ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Discrimination In Latin America: An Economic Perspective

    by Nopo Hugo; Chong Alberto; Moro Andrea ...
    Latin America has often been regarded as a region with deep ethnic and class conflicts. The difficulty of assessing this from an economic perspective is two fold: There is little solid, unbiased, and systematic data to provide convincing empirical evidence, and there is a dearth of empirical methods to identify specific discriminatory-based behavior as opposed to related behavior that might only ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Banking on Health

    The World Bank and Health Sector Reform in Latin America

    by Shiri Noy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the puzzle of why the World Bank was unable to effect sweeping neoliberal health reforms in Latin America from the 1980s onward. Through the use of quantitative regional data together with interview and archival data collected during fieldwork in Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, and Washington DC, this book argues that the answer to this puzzle is twofold. First, the World Bank has ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Moving Out Of Poverty (Volume 1): Crossdisciplinary Perspectives On Mobility

    by Narayan Deepa; Petesch Patti ...
    This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. While covering a vast body of conceptual and empirical knowledge about economic and social mobility, it takes the reader on compelling journeys of multigenerational accounts of three villages in Kanartaka, India, twelve years in the life of a street child in Burkina Faso, and much more. Leading ... Read more

    $21.59 USD