Essays on International Reserve Accumulation and Cooperation in Latin America

Regional integration and south-south cooperation in health in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This paper analyzes whether south-south cooperation is legitimately a recent practice or merely an improved version of previous regional integration processes in Latin America and the Caribbean. The authors reviewed and systematized the historic development of subregional integration processes in Latin America and the Caribbean and focused on health cooperation in the following contexts: the Ce...

Conceptualizing Governance in Latin America

Due to the diversity of interpretations and definitions given in Latin America to the terms gobernabilidad and gobernanza, this paper brings together and compares these definitions with the concepts of the Anglo-Saxon terms: governance and governability. After an anthropological analysis of these concepts, it proposes a definition of governance which could be applied in international cooperatio...

[Preventing asbestos-related diseases: operative action for Italian cooperation with Latin-American countries].

The present paper was aimed at promoting countermeasures based on scientific evidence and international cooperation for evaluating the impact on health caused by exposure to asbestos fibres in the workplace and the environment. Scientific evidence regarding asbestos made available by the international scientific community, decades of experience gained in Italy on this issue and being aware that...

Trends and Challenges in International Cooperation and the Mobilization of Resources for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

International scientific cooperation on asbestos-related disease prevention in Latin America.

The International Labour Organization-World Health Organization Outline for the Development of National Programmes for Elimination of asbestos-related diseases recommends the “Enhancement of international cooperation to stimulate the transfer of know-how on alternatives to asbestos and the best practices for prevention of asbestos-related diseases” as a strategic action to be developed at natio...