Development and educational policy in Latin America

Models of Development, Social Policy and Reform in Latin America

Fraternity and Educational Reform in Latin America

The author proposes that in a democratic society, education serves to establish fundamental relationships of fraternity, generating the “social capital” that bonds citizens together. Against this perspective, he examines the cultural values transmitted in the educational systems of six Latin American countries. He finds that following world-wide trends, the curricula have shifted from privilegi...

Social Policy in Latin America

This project was conceived more as a collaborative study than as comparative research in the strict sense. The emphasis was on national studies, not on comparison among countries. Given the exploratory nature of the research, each national study had great freedom to define, conceptually and empirically, the "field" of social policy, thus acknowledging the complexity and ubiquity of the concept ...

Competition Policy in Latin America

This paper reports on recent developments in Latin American competition (antitrust) policy from the perspective of the role competition policy in supporting market reform. Competition policy is an instance of the use of law to influence economic behavior. More than eighty nations have enacted antitrust laws in the last twenty years, mostly based on U.S. and E.U. models. A review of the antitrus...

Government Policy for Innovation in Latin America

A review of various innovation indicators for the Latin American and Carribbean countries suggests that these countries are underperforming in a number of dimensions when compared to others with similar levels of GDP per capita, especially in the area of business R&D and the contribution of universities and public research institutions to business innovation. The paper presents the arguments fo...