Informal, coercive residential centers for the treatment of addiction are widespread and growing throughout Latin America. In Mexico these centers are called "anexos" and they are run and utilized by low-income individuals and families with problems related to drugs and alcohol. This article draws on findings from a 3-year anthropological study of anexos in Mexico City. Participant observation ...

Exclusion on the basis of race, religion, and ethnicity exists in many nations under diverse social, economic, and political systems. Such exclusion is a problem in several countries in Asia. And while many Asian countries—such as China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, and Pakistan— have developed equal opportunity policies to overcome economic discrimination, the nature of both market and nonma...

In the 1960s when South Asians faced widespread famine, the technologydriven agricultural solutions of the Green Revolution (GR) were an unprecedented success, creating food surpluses within 25 years despite a 70% increase in population1. The GR raised many out of poverty, saved large areas of forest and wetlands from conversion to cropping, and helped launch the economic transformation of the ...