Three Latin American Legal Periodicals of International Interest

Latin american debt: an international bargaining perspective*

No assessment of new or recently re-established democracies in Latin America can overlook the threat to these regimes posed by debt service obligations that are often heavier and more durable than the reparations imposed on Weimar Germany. No discussion of the weakening of the liberal international economic order (the trend towards trade protection, chronic instability in currency and financial...

Author characteristics in three medical library periodicals.

External Pressures and International Norms in Latin American Pension Reform

What accounts for the striking of wave of pension privatization that swept across Latin America during the 1990s? Many authors argue that the international financial institutions (IFIs) successfully promoted this drastic change, forcing or persuading weak developing countries to enact their uniform blueprints. But the present analysis, based on field research in Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, El ...

Transport and health: a look at three Latin American cities.

Transport is associated with environmental problems, economic losses, health and social inequalities. A number of European and US cities have implemented initiatives to promote multimodal modes of transport. In Latin America changes are occurring in public transport systems and a number of projects aimed at stimulating non-motorized modes of transport (walking and cycling) have already been imp...

Operations Research on Promoting Vasectomy in Three Latin American Countries

The situation in Mexico followed a similar pattern. From 1980 to 1988, the Mexican Social Security Institute (the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social, or IMSS) performed fewer than 5,000 vasectomies per year. In 1989, the IMSS launched a program to open at least one no-scalpel vasectomy training center in each state. By September 1994, 44 centers had been established, 116 physicians had been tr...