Latin America: An Economic and Social Geography

Geography and Socioeconomic Development in Latin America and Caribbean

Introduction Geography has strong and pervasive effects on economic and social development. On a worldwide scale, geographical patterns are especially dramatic (Figure 1). The tropics are almost uniformly poor, and few of the nontropical countries are among the poorest. If geography were unimportant, one would expect to see similar economic conditions throughout the world, subject to some rando...

[Geography and health: themes and perspectives in Latin America].

Relations between geography and health have been recognized since ancient times. Investigation of such relations has been characterized by isolated and scant efforts. This article aims to explore potential links between geography's theoretical and methodological frame of reference and knowledge and interpretation of the population's health. It approaches the antecedents of medical or health-rel...

Economic Crisis and Democracy in Latin America

While the world is focused on the economic impact of the financial and credit meltdown, what might be its impact on politics? In well-established democracies, probably not more than elections lost by incumbent parties seen as having mismanaged the economy.Butwhat of consolidatingdemocracies that predominate in thedevelopingworld, where some forecasts expect the crisis to hit the poor especially...

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 ...

Social Investment in Latin America