Latin America’s external indebtedness

Alternative Measures of Australia’s External Indebtedness

E conomics is fundamentally concerned with how people maximise their well being with limited resources. Economists are, therefore, interested in measuring these resource, or wealth, constraints. Some statistics are more useful for this purpose than others. GDP per capita is a commonly used measure of real living standards. With some qualifications, an increase in GDP per capita is generally reg...

External Quality Assessment Schemes in Latin America

As professionals of the clinical laboratory we must generate clinically useful results, products and services for the patients' health care. Laboratories must participate in one or more proficiency testing (PT) or external quality assessment (EQA) programs as part of routine quality assurance. Nevertheless participating per se is not enough. There are critical factors to take into consideration...

External Pressures and International Norms in Latin American Pension Reform

What accounts for the striking of wave of pension privatization that swept across Latin America during the 1990s? Many authors argue that the international financial institutions (IFIs) successfully promoted this drastic change, forcing or persuading weak developing countries to enact their uniform blueprints. But the present analysis, based on field research in Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, El ...

HRWeb Americas: a tool to facilitate better research governance in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Major progress has been made in improving health in Latin America and the Caribbean and life expectancy has increased considerably in the Americas. However, major concerns still exist since this progress has not reached all members of society and inequality remains high in the region 1. Research can address this problem and fortunately there is growing international recognition that quality res...

Migration in the Americas: Mexico and Latin America in Comparative Context.