Principales tendencias de la filantropia en America Latina

Durante las últimas décadas se conformó una nueva filantropía más organizada, integrada por fundaciones privadas y corporativas, instituciones de cooperación internacional, entidades religiosas y principalmente organizaciones con fines sociales que han sido promotoras y a su vez canalizadoras de donaciones.¿Cuáles son las características de esta nueva filantropía? ¿Cuáles son sus principales tendencias en la región? Para responder estas y otras preguntas, la Fundación AVINA aliada con la oficina de AlianzasEstratégicas del Banco Inter-Americano de Desarrollo (BID) creó el Índice de Donantes

Conclusion: New Projects and Old Reminders

Globalization and the transnational networks established by economic integration have produced a context in which the gathering of knowledge about Latina/o and Latin American communities is largely devoid of any processual perspective. This means that we must construct an alternative methodology to capture the international and transnational social fields and arenas of this multinational population. Nowhere does this type of dialogue appear more necessary than in studies of immigration from Latin America to the United States. In particular, we maintain that the integration of Latin American and Latina/o studies requires viewing these new waves of migrants as part of a synchronic flow of capital, goods, and resources back and forth between the United States and their countries of origin. We have shown in our discussion of remittances that multiple levels of economic dependency result

No convergencia en america latina

In this paper we carry out an empirical analysis on convergence for Latin America for the 1960-1998 period, by means of panel data estimations. Our evidence does not indicate neither the presence of absolute and conditional convergence, or clubs of convergence. In turn, the fixed effects estimations results do not show conditional convergence, which suggest that each economy converges to its own steady state.El trabajo presenta un análisis empírico sobre la convergencia para América Latina durante el periodo 1960-2009, por medio de estimaciones de datos de panel. La evidencia encontrada no indica la presencia de convergencia absoluta ni condicional, ni tampoco la existencia de clubes de convergencia. A su vez, los resultados de las estimaciones realizadas con efectos fijos muestran que no existe convergencia condicional, lo que sugiere que cada economía converge a su propio estado estacionario

Amplia Propiedad De Acciones: La Barrera Para El Desarrollo De Los Derechos De Accionistas De Minoria en America Latina

La reforma de gobemaci6n corporativa ha tornado un enfoque primario en America Latina

Hacia una Nueva Estrategia en las Relaciones Unión Europea – América Latina

Ten years after the launching in 1995 of the EU’s strategy for Latin America, the relations between both regions are stalled and it demands changes in order to be adapted to the new situation that influence both regions. Latin America seems to be losing relevance in a partner of a EU that is facing the challenges of enlargement, constitutional crisis, and the neighbour policy. Latin America is crossing a phase of political and economic change and crisis in his schemes of regional integration. New leaderships are emerging, and difficult choices shell be made between a closer relationship with the United States or the new project of the South American Community of Nations. In this scenario, this policy paper suggest four main goals for the EU-Latin America partnership: a) development and social cohesion; b) international autonomy, regionalism and integration for Latin America; c) EU’s presence in Latin America; and d) the strengthening of the strategic partnership. These proposals are based on the study “Latin America-study on Relations between the EU and Latin America: New perspectives”, commissioned by the DG-Relex (External Relations) of the European Commission to the Complutense Institute for International Studies. It derived of the research carried out by a team of 24 scholars of both regions, and the views expressed in 260 interviews with European and American relevant individuals.Diez años después del lanzamiento de la estrategia de la UE para América Latina de 1995, las relaciones entre ambas regiones están estancadas y requieren cambios para adaptarla a la nueva situación que viven ambas regiones tras el 11-S. América Latina parece perder peso como socio de una UE que afronta las exigencias de la ampliación y la política de vecindad, la crisis institucional, y las dificultades para mantener el “modelo social” europeo. América Latina atraviesa un periodo de cambios políticos y económicos, de crisis de sus organizaciones de integración regional, aparecen nuevos liderazgos, y enfrenta difíciles dilemas entre una vinculación más estrecha con Estados Unidos, o el nuevo proyecto de Comunidad Sudamericana de Naciones. En este escenario, este documento de política propone cuatro objetivos básicos de la asociación birregional: a) desarrollo y cohesión social; b) autonomía internacional, regionalismo e integración de América Latina; c) la proyección exterior de la UE en América Latina, y; d) el fortalecimiento estratégico de la asociación. Estas propuestas se basan en el estudio “Perspectivas de las relaciones Unión Europea-América Latina. Hacia una nueva estrategia”, encargado por la Dirección General de Relaciones Exteriores de la Comisión Europea al Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI), y parten del análisis realizado por un equipo de 24 especialistas de las dos regiones; y en las percepciones recogidas en más de 250 entrevistas a personas relevantes tanto de América como de Europa.Unión Europea, América Latina, relaciones internacionales, integración, desarrollo, comercio, European Union, Latin America, international relations, integration, development, trade.

Essays on Political Economy: Cuba, Latin America, and the United States- Book Presentation by Jorge Salazar- Carrillo

Jorge Salazar-Carrillo presents his book Ensayos de Politica Economica- Cuba, America Latina y Estados Unidos , which analyzes political economy in Cuba, Latin America and the United States to help develop better ideas and conclusions to combat the current economic ills in the Americas. Dr. Salazar- Carrillo is currently Professor and Director of the Economic Research Center at FIU.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1302/thumbnail.jp

El capital humano en America Latina en el periodo 1965-90 y su contribucion al desarrollo economico

El objetivo de este trabajo es el analisis de la contribucion de la educacion al crecimiento economico en America Latina, mediante un analisis que parte de la tradicional funcion de produccion Cobb-Douglas, siguiendo el enfoque de Neira y Guisan (1999), pero en el que se realiza una nueva forma de analisis del efecto que la educacion ejerce sobre el crecimiento del PIB per capita a traves de su relacion con el capital fisico. The aim of this paper is to analyse the contribution of education to economic growth in Latin America, throughout an analysis that starts from the traditional Cobb-Douglas production function, but in which a new analytical tool is employed to study the effect that education has over the growth of the GDP per capita through its relation with physical capital.Human Capital, Education and Development, Latin America. Capital humano, Educacion y desarrollo, America Latina.

Tax systems and tax reforms in Latin America: coubtry studies and general issues.

The two papers give a full analysis of Latin American taxaton since 1990 up to day. One paper deals with counry cases. Those examinated regard Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costarica, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay. For each country tax trends are examinated, starting by 1990 or before. Then main istitutional features of the existing tax systems are presented, Next, the main issues concerning tax burden are deepened. Finally the most relevant recent or planned reofms are discussed. The seconnd paper gives an analysis of the American Latina fiscal systems as a whole and deals with isseus like the polical economy of taxation in the area,the measures adopted to attrack Fdi and so on.Tax system, tax reform, America

The Other Europeans: Immigration into Latin American and the International Labour Market (1870-1930)

No todos los europeos emigraron a Estados Unidos. Entre 1879 y 1930 alrededor de 13 millones de europeos fueron a América Latina. Sin embargo, América Latina no está plenamente incorporada a los debates actuales sobre costes y beneficios de las migraciones atlánticas. Este artículo presenta un estado de la cuestión de la inmigración en América latina desde finales del siglo XIX hasta 1930. Evalúa las inferencias realizadas a partir de la experiencia de los inmigrantes europeos en Estados Unidos y se cuestiona su validez para el caso latinoamericano. Los temas tratados en la primera sección incluyen las tendencias migratorias y su cronología, el origen nacional de los flujos y la evolución de los salarios reales entre países receptores y emisores. El trabajo presenta nuevos datos sobre el coste del transporte en la migración internacional. Una segunda sección examina la contribución de los inmigrantes al crecimiento económico de América Latina con especial énfasis en el capital humano de los inmigrantes Europeos. El impacto de la inmigración sobre la mano de obra y la estructura demográfica de los países de inmigración, en el corto y en el largo plazo, se analiza en la sección siguiente.Not all Europeans migrated to the United States. Between 1879 and 1930 around 13 million of Europeans went to Latin America; however, Latin America is not fully incorporated into current debates on the cost and benefits from Atlantic migration. This paper surveys Latin America’s immigration from the late nineteenth century to 1930. It assesses inferences about European migrants in Latin America derived from the experience of migrants in the United States and questions its validity. The topics covered here include migration trends and chronology, national origin of the flows and the evolution of real wages. New data on the cost of passages for transatlantic migration is also presented. This is followed by an examination of the immigrants’ contribution to economic growth in Latin America dealing basically with the issue of human capital brought in by European immigrants. The extent to which immigrants alter the composition of the labour force and the demographic structure, both in the short and the long run is also examined

Old and new dualisms in Latin America and Asia: labour productivity, international competitiveness and income distribution

Using sectoral growth accounting techniques from a structural perspective à la Lewis, the paper analyzes the structural determinants of labour productivity in Asia and Latin America, indicating a contrasted situation between both developing regions. While Asia appears to be engaged in a relatively smooth transition from the low productivity traditional activities to a more industrialized economy, the pattern emerging out of the Latin American data indicates the presence of polarizing forces, and the resurgence of a new dualistic economy. From a systemic perspective, Asia has been progressively closing the productivity gap with industrialised countries, gaining international competitiveness, while Latin America has been losing ground despite advances at the microeconomic level. Two structural trends led to the deterioration of the income distribution in Latin America: strong demand for high qualification workers, pushing up the salary of professionals and technicians (same happened in Asia); and a deficit of job opportunities in the manufacture sector, leading to an excess supply of labour in the services sector and a decline in value added per worker. The emergence of a large urban informal sector in Latin America epitomizes this situation. The structural models used for the analysis suggest also some lines of action for policy making, facilitating resource reallocation from low to high productivity sectors, while limiting spurious inter-sectoral shifts. This text is an unpublished author's translation of the original article "Dualismos antiguos y contemporáneos en América Latina y Asia" Revista Trabajo no.5, año 3, 2007; OIT/UAM México.productivity, sectoral shift-share, transition, income distribution, competitiveness