An Attorney's Perspective on Emerging New Venture Opportunities for Petroleum Projects in Latin America

Mobile Telephony in Latin America: New Opportunities to Reduce Poverty?

The strong pattern of inequality that marks Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is repeated, although with different characteristics, in access to information and communication technologies (ICTs). Although it is not currently possible to demonstrate empirically, in great detail, that mobile telephony is making a substantive contribution to poverty reduction in LAC, we aim to shed light on ce...

China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America

The present international economic context is characterized by an increasing interdependence of economies and finances and by a high degree of trade competition. The arrival of emergent economies, such as China, has generated an important impact on the economies of Latin he participation of all Latin American countries, a phenomenon reflected in the increase of trade flows between both regions....

Opportunities and Challenges for IS Research in Latin America

Psychiatry in Latin America: a historical perspective

The evolution of psychiatry in Latin America reflects the merger of three different types of human interactions. The first one is represented by the aborigine cultures that prevailed in this Continent before its discovery. This group in primarily represented by the Aztec and Incas Indians who primordially occupied Mexico and Peru respectively. The second one is primarily exemplified by the Span...

Fitting the Facts and Capitalizing on New Opportunities to Redesign Rural Development Programs in Latin America*

In a world of rapidly changing economic opportunities, institutions frequently lag relative to the objective conditions over which they apply, creating dysfunctionalities that can have high social costs. The Indian caste system is a classical example of such institutional slippage between division of labor and social class positions, with not only high welfare costs for members of lower castes ...