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Élites Empresariales y Desigualdad en Tiempos de Pandemia en América Latina (Business Elites and Inequality in Times of Pandemic in Latin America)
2020
Spanish Abstract: El presente articulo realiza un analisis triple para entender el efecto de la pandemia del COVID-19 sobre la desigualdad economica en America Latina. En primer lugar, se evidencia que las divisas latinoamericanas son de las mas depreciadas del mundo, lo que sumerge a las economias de America Latina en una alta inestabilidad economica y dificulta construir politicas macroeconomicas estables de distribucion y redistribucion. En segundo lugar, se discuten las consecuencias de la alta informalidad en el empleo de las economias de America Latina para mostrar el probable aumento de la desigualdad. Finalmente, se identifican las demandas de las elites empresariales en tiempos de …
Integrating soil survey, land use management and political ecology: A case study in a border area between Peru and Ecuador
2013
In Latin America countries, competition for access to natural resources among different groups has been a major reason for the outburst of violence over the last decades. One of the main aims of the political ecology concerns the understanding of the environmental conditions that can underlies the social conflict among people. Such understanding needs to be based on a detailed investigation of the natural resources of the landscape, mainly the soils. Few years ago the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs financed a soil survey with a humanitarian purpose: the development of a peace plan between Peru and Ecuador by improving the socio-economic conditions of the rural populations living in th…
Latin-American Studies on Well-Being
2014
This chapter aims to describe Latin-American studies on well-being from two different perspectives: the hedonic (life satisfaction, positive and negative emotions) and the eudaimonic (psychological well-being) traditions. An analysis of research articles published between 1998 and 2012 was conducted. The introduced key words were: happiness, life satisfaction and well-being and the search was limited by language of publication restricted to Spanish and Portuguese. Results were analyzed by country of origin, type of well-being study and the inclusion of cultural variables. Those studies focused on what people understood about psychological well-being and the meaning assigned to it are descri…
Foro de educación
2014
Dada la riqueza y la diversidad social, cultural y educativa de América Latina, esta región geográfica se presenta como un escenario privilegiado para el aprendizaje y el desarrollo humanos de educadores de todo tipo, muy especialmente para los educadores sociales. De ahí que distintas universidades españolas hayan firmado convenios de cooperación con universidades latinoamericanas y establecido acuerdos de colaboración con organizaciones locales para que estudiantes de ambos lados del Atlántico puedan realizar prácticas. Este artículo se centra en el Programa Específico de Movilidad Internacional de la Facultat de Filosofía i Ciències de l’Educació de la Universitat de Vàlencia, describien…
Technological and knowledge diffusion link: An international perspective 1870–2019
2021
Abstract Technology diffusion is a necessary but not sufficient condition for knowledge diffusion. Technological waves' impact on education differs across educational levels. We use data for 104 countries on technology diffusion and education from 1870 to 2019. We find six technology waves from 1870 to 2019 had a substantial and statistically significant educational attainment impact using fixed panel data modeling. The impact differs across time and regions, with the most noticeable impact in Advanced economies and Eastern Europe. Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East, and North Africa are catching up with lagging Sub-Saharan Africa. The transportation revoluti…
The role of market orientation and innovation capability in export performance of small-and medium-sized enterprises: a Latin American perspective
2021
Purpose This study aims to extend the existing base of knowledge of proactive and reactive market orientation and innovation capability by testing their impact on the export performance of emerging-market small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a Latin American context. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a replication study, and its data were collected through a survey answered by general, marketing, sales or export managers at 155 Mexican SMEs. The research model was tested using partial least squares. Findings The study results indicate that innovation capability and reactive market orientation are drivers of export performance in Latin American SMEs. Moreover, proactive mar…
The Indulgent Parenting Style and Developmental Outcomes in South European and Latin American Countries
2013
This chapter reviews recent literature analysing relationships between parenting styles and developmental outcomes. As opposed to traditional results obtained with Euro-American samples, evidence from emergent research in South European and Latin American countries indicates that adolescents from indulgent families scored equal or even better than those from authoritative families in many key indicators of psychosocial adjustment, and that the indulgent parenting appears as the optimum parenting style in these samples. This research suggests that authoritative parenting is not always necessarily associated with optimum developmental outcomes and that relationships between parenting styles a…
Recensión de Rivas, A. (2015). América Latina después de PISA: Lecciones aprendidas de la educación en siete países (2000-2015). Buenos Aires: CIPPEC…
2016
El objetivo principal fue estudiar las políticas educativas implementadas en siete países (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México, Perú y Uruguay), que han participado habitualmente en el Programa para la Evaluación Internacional de Estudiantes (Program for the International Assessment of Students, PISA) desde 2000 hasta 2012.
The Impact of Fiscal Consolidation on Human Development
2017
We find that fiscal austerity is associated with a reduction of human development standards, with the negative effect being particularly severe in the case of spending-driven consolidation episodes. Fiscal adjustments are especially damaging for human development in developing countries (namely, African and Latin American countries). Additionally, the empirical evidence shows that (i) government stability is a crucial institutional determinant of human development, and (ii) while investment in physical capital can boost human development, government consumption and inflation are detrimental to it. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Experiencia docente iberoamericana sobre metodología de la investigación a través de videoconferencia
2013
Les noves tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació (TIC) són eines valuoses que utilitzades correctament afavoreixen el procés 'ensenyament- aprenentatge en tots els nivells del sistema educatiu . En els últims anys l'ús de la videoconferència com a eina de les TIC en el sector universitari ha vingut en augment a causa del potencial educatiu i social de connectar processos i experiències entre professors i estudiants situats en diferents parts del món. La videoconferència ha transformat la forma en què la pedagogia i l'aprenentatge es duen a terme a l'aula universitària . L'article descriu una experiència educativa entre dues països iberoamericans sobre la implementació de l´assignatur…