Productive Development Policies in Argentina

Analysis of some productive development policies in Uruguay

This paper reviews and assesses some of the Productive Development Policies currently being implemented in Uruguay. We have selected three horizontal and three vertical policies and consider them in light of the market and public failures they attempt to address and minimize. Horizontal policies comprise Innovation, Industrial Promotion and Directives for Industrial and Technological Developmen...

Conservative litigation against sexual and reproductive health policies in Argentina.

In Argentina, campaigns for the recognition of sexual and reproductive rights have sparked opposition through litigation in which the dynamics of legal action have come from self-proclaimed "pro-life" NGOs, particularly since 1998, when the conservative NGO Portal de Belén successfully achieved the banning of emergency contraception through the courts. The activities of these groups, acting as ...

Social Patterns in Productive Software Development Organizations

Software development is a predominantly social activity. It is important to view software development groups, departments, and corporations as social bodies. We study software organizations by using a novel data-gathering approach that combines several techniques commonly used in social network analysis. We differ from ordinary social anthropology in that we help the organization introspect abo...

Productive development in open economies. Summary

The Role of Policies Governing Urban Land Development in Sari

Land is the most important factor in the physical development of cities; land management has now become one of the most important concerns and concerns of local governments. Also, the sprawling growth of cities has degraded the environment and natural resources around the cities. Meanwhile, due to inadequate and accelerated decision-making, some of the inner-city and inter-contextual capacity o...