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1 Aug 2019, 10:09 am by Jordi Ventura
A multinational mining company with operations in one or more Latin American countries – countries with diverse cultures and widely different stages of social and economic development – is invariably faced with significant challenges that dictate the need for periodic legal checkups or diagnoses of its projects on a case by case basis. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 3:57 pm
I am delighted to pass along links to the articles recently published in the Latin American Research Review (Vol 55).There is much worth reading here, especially the studies of the structures of race infused social organization  and the economics of ethno-migration in Spain. [read post]
20 Apr 2023, 7:44 am by Juan Pablo Escudero
Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile are all in complex political, social, and economic situations. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 1:30 am
 Insurance and Reinsurance as a Political, Social and Economic StabilizerAt 1:21 p.m. local time on January 8, 2008, an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale occurred in the Central American country of Costa Rica. [read post]
23 Apr 2019, 6:55 pm
The encomienda served as a system of social control, of economic exploitation, and of the replication of the system of obligation and responsibility that marked the Spanish governmental system as it developed through the early modern period. [read post]
20 May 2013, 8:44 am by Larry Catá Backer
 (Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013)Considerably less attention has been paid to the increasingly important involvement of Chinese firms, private and state owned, in Latin American development. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 9:23 am by Irene
As if that weren’t bad enough, this week’s allocation will go to a Bolivian and Ecuadorian-based group called Desarrollo y Autogestión (Development and Self-management) that promotes social and economic development for “impoverished” and “marginalized” groups. [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 9:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
The Organisation for Co-operation and Economic Development (OECD) has compiled tax revenue data for countries around the world—including 26 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, where tax revenue as a percent of GDP is on average 11 percentage points lower than in other regions. [read post]
28 Sep 2022, 3:58 am by Dan Harris
The bad news about China’s developing supply chain in Mexico? [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 5:16 am by Louise Marie Hurel
Since 2020, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), for example, has been seeking to further integrate the development agenda with cybersecurity as part of its Digital Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean (eLAC). [read post]
7 Nov 2023, 10:40 am by Mario Zúñiga
That is hardly the case of Latin American consumers, who have less than a third the income of their European counterparts. [read post]
8 Aug 2017, 6:57 pm
I am pleased to pass along this call for papers for the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2018 Congress: Latin American Studies in a Globalized World, 23-26 May, Barcelona, Spain. [read post]
8 Feb 2018, 7:30 am by Tim Maurer, Agustin Rossi
In fact, the World Economic Forum describes Latin America as the “world’s most unequal region. [read post]
12 Jun 2009, 7:09 am
  As to Latin America, the report identifies the greatest threats to social and political stability as expropriation and piracy.Expropriation: The Lloyd’s report acknowledges that most, if not all, of the Latin American countries have the capability to expropriate and operate businesses through already existing government-owned companies. [read post]
14 Jun 2015, 7:32 am
Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. [read post]
16 Feb 2020, 7:00 am by Karen Young
Young of the American Enterprise Institute describes this change in the development landscape and calls for a renewed U.S. commitment to development spending. [read post]
14 Jan 2010, 5:00 am by Victoria VanBuren
We came across a very interesting article entitled “Why Further Development of ADR in Latin America Makes Sense: The Venezuelan Model,” by Jose Alberto Ramirez Leon, 2 Journal of Dispute Resolution 399 (2005). [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 5:48 am
Although all of the Latin American jurisdictions had notable regulatory and market developments in 2008, Argentina stands out as particularly significant given the size of the market involved and the fundamental nature of the developments seen there in the past year. [read post]
19 Aug 2022, 5:55 am by Ximena Casas Isaza
As Latin American feminist advocates, we have seen firsthand how the lack of access to safe and legal abortions has impacted the life and health of many women, girls, and pregnant people across the Western hemisphere. [read post]