Assessing international accounting harmonization in Latin America

Trends in international migration in Latin America and the Caribbean

lation Programme at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay. Email: apellegKfcsum.edu.uy. Her research interests include the history of population and international migration. She is the author of many publications on these topics. Between 1994 and 1998 she was a member of the South–North Migration Committee of the International Union for the Scie...

The challenges of organizing an international course in Latin America

The Latin American School of Human and Medical Genetics (ELAG) is the main course of its kind in the genetics field in Latin America. Here we describe the main challenges regarding the organization of such event, including how we obtain funding and how we proceed with student selection. Thus, we aim to share our experience with other groups that intend to follow this format to create similar ev...

Essays on International Reserve Accumulation and Cooperation in Latin America

Social Capital and International Migration from Latin America.

We combine data from the Latin American Migration Project and the Mexican Migration Project to estimate models predicting the likelihood of taking of first and later trips to the United States from five nations: Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Peru. The models test specific hypotheses about the effects of social capital on international migration and how these effects...

International health, the early cold war and Latin America.

This article offers a panoramic vision of the development of international health in Latin America during the late 1940s and the 1950s, when a series of bilateral and multilateral institutions, such as the World Health Organization and UNICEF, were founded and reshaped. The language, policies, and activities of these new institutional actors were heavily influenced by the context of the early C...