Search results for " Latin America"
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La modernidad de la tradición : nueve versiones literarias del gaucho en la formación del imaginario nacional argentino (1880-1930)
2000
La narrativa indigenista de Amauta
2000
Have the constitutions of the new latin american constitutionalism succeeded?
2018
Resumen Desde la decada de los noventa del siglo pasado, America Latina esta experimentando un ciclo de procesos constituyentes democraticos que suele conocerse en la doctrina como nuevo constitucionalismo. Decadas despues de su aprobacion, cabe analizar criticamente los efectos de esta corriente que buscaba mejorar la situacion social, democratizar la politica y transformar el Estado. El presente articulo de investigacion se plantea cuatro preguntas: 1. ?Las Constituciones han servido para mejorar las condiciones de bienestar de los ciudadanos?; 2. ?Se ha podido limitar el poder de los organos constituidos?; 3. ?Ha disminuido la desigualdad y la pobreza?; 4. ?Ha mejorado la situacion de lo…
De las redes sociales a un conocimiento crítico compartido. La experiencia del Geoforo
2013
La construcción de un conocimiento crítico compartido educativo requiere que se cumplan algunas condiciones. En primer lugar que exista un grupo de personas y colectivos que estén dispuestos a colaborar en debates y argumentos en relación con su profesión docente. También es preciso que la teoría crítica esté definida en relación con las tradiciones e innovaciones didácticas. Pero sobre todo es preciso que se establezca un diálogo entre la teoría y la práctica, en especial en las acciones e intenciones que se desarrollan en el sistema escolar. Este es la finalidad que busca el Geoforo desde hace cinco años.
Health-related quality of life of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis coming from 3 different geographic areas. The PRINTO multinational qual…
2006
OBJECTIVES: To compare health-related quality of life (HRQL) and to identify clinical determinants for poor HRQL of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) coming from three geographic areas.METHODS: The HRQL was assessed through the Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ). A total of 30 countries were included grouped in three geographic areas: 16 countries in Western Europe; 10 in Eastern Europe; and four in Latin America. Potential determinants of poor HRQL included demographic data, physician's and parent's global assessments, measures of joint inflammation, disability as measured by Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Poor HRQL was de…
An ‘Authoritarian Nexus’? China’s Alleged Special Relationship with Autocratic States in Latin America
2015
China’s rise is often interpreted as a harbinger of a new era in world politics and raises the question if such a power transition may impact upon patterns of democratic rule across the globe. There is growing interest in whether China acts as an outside stabilizer for other authoritarian regimes. This paper contributes to the emerging literature on the international dimension of autocratic rule by focusing on Chinese Latin American policy. Using the method of structured focused comparisons, we want to assess whether China’s relations towards the Latin American autocracies Cuba and Venezuela differ from those with structurally similar, but democratic cooperation partners in the region, name…
La globalización del Geoforo Iberoamericano en 2018
2018
Los diez años de existencia del Geoforo Iberoamericano (geoforo.blogspot. com) nos permiten hacer un balance del trabajo realizado y valorar su presencia en el mundo global de las redes sociales. Las relaciones que se han establecido entre el profesorado y alumnado de geografía han superado las fronteras iniciales. Ya no solo es el mundo iberoamericano, sino que el Geoforo ha tenido presencia en otras escalas planetarias. Igualmente, el campo de la enseñanza de la geografía se ha ampliado a los ámbitos del conocimiento de la didáctica de las ciencias sociales. El éxito o fracaso del Geoforo reside en la fortaleza de las relaciones sociales que se han establecido entre el profesorado y alumn…
How local conditions affect global banking: the case of BBVA and Santander
2021
This paper explores why Spanish banks internationalize and why Latin America has been the main region for the international expansion of BBVA and Santander. It shows that prior to 1986 Spanish banks had a limited presence abroad, and analyses the main drivers of this initial expansion (remittances and trade connections). However, from 1986 on, there was a confluence of domestic and external factors (economic and regulatory changes in Latin America) that encouraged the international forays of BBVA and Santander. The fact that changes in the Spanish and Latin American financial sectors occurred just when other transnational banks were turning their attention to other regions created the optim…
Trade Openness and Income: A Tale of Two Regions
2015
In this article we present evidence of the long-run effect of trade openness on income per worker for two regions that have followed different liberalization strategies, namely Asia and Latin America. A model that re-examines these questions is estimated for two panels of Asian and Latin American countries over the 1980-2008 period using a novel empirical approach that accounts for endogeneity as well as for the time series properties of the variables involved. From an econometric point of view, we apply recent panel cointegration techniques based on factor models that account for two additional elements usually neglected in previous empirical literature: cross-dependence and structural bre…
Early modern state formation in the margins? A review of early modern popular politics and limited royal power in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth …
2017
The traditional historiography of early modern state-building has usually followed the western European paradigm of historiography, the usual models being France, England, Brandenburg-Prussia and Sweden. Regions that do not follow this paradigm have simply been left out and labeled “backward” or as “lagging behind”. In this literary review, our focus is on two different and rather surprising cases of early modern state formation: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Spanish colonial empire in Latin America. By following the scholarship on these two large conglomerates, we focus on two scholarly concepts: the idea of early modern realms as composite/conglomerate states, and state forma…