Insuring against Neighboring Crises : International Reserves in Latin America

Globalisation, Growth and Crises: The View from Latin America

In this paper I analyse the role of openness and globalisation in Latin America’s economic development. The paper is divided into two distinct parts: I first (Sections 2 to 4) provide an analysis of 60 years of the region’s economic history, that go from the launching of the Alliance for Progress by the Kennedy administration in 1961, to the formulation and implementation of the market oriented...

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

Insuring Consumption Against Illness.

One of the most sizable and least predictable shocks to economic opportunities in developing countries is major illness. We investigate the extent to which families are able to insure consumption against major illness using a unique panel data set from Indonesia that combines excellent measures of health status with consumption information. We find that there are significant economic costs asso...