Time for New Thinking about ELT in Latin America and Elsewhere

Time for new thinking about sensitive periods

The impact of training or experience is not the same at all points in development. Children who receive music lessons, or learn a second language before age 7–8 are more proficient as adults. Early exposure to drugs or trauma makes people more likely to become addicted or depressed later life. Rat pups exposed to specific frequencies from 9 to 13 days post-partum show expanded cortical represen...

[A social epidemiology for Latin America: the need to go beyond just thinking about health inequities].

Pneumococcal disease: new challenges and new proposals for Latin America.

Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is the leading cause of vaccine preventable deaths in children < 5 years worldwide and it causes a significant disease burden in Latin America and the Caribbean. In order to combat the increasing incidence of IPD in our region, the vast majority of countries have included pneumococcal vaccines as a preventive strategy. The GREEN group (Grupo Regional de Estud...

Publishing IS Research in and about Latin America

New financing trends in Latin America

The transformation of financing, the changing nature of financial risks and the resulting policy challenges were the main topics of a meeting on “New financing trends in Latin America: a bumpy ride towards stability” held in Mexico City on May 26–27, 2007 and jointly organised by the Bank for International Settlements and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. This introduction is an overview of ...