DEV-14. IMPACT OF A LATIN AMERICA-WIDE TELECONFERENCED BRAIN TUMOR BOARD

Latin America 14 LUIS

DEV 14 and HotMobile 15

T Fifth ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV-5) was held on 5–6 December 2014 in San Jose, California. In its fifth edition, DEV continued its progress to becoming the premier venue to present original and innovative work on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computing in developing regions. In particular, the conference highlighted research results from...

The Impact of FDI on CO2 Emissions in Latin America

This paper uses panel Granger causality tests to study the relationship between sector specific FDI and CO2 emissions. Using a sample of 18 Latin American countries for the 1980-2007 period, we find causality running from FDI in polluting intensive industries (“the dirty sector”) to CO2 emissions per capita. This result is robust to controlling for other factors associated with CO2 emissions an...

The Development Impact of Remittances in Latin America

The Impact of Reforms on Equity in Latin America