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...

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 ...

This paper compares growth conditions in China and Latin America to assess fears that China will displace Latin America in the coming decades. China’s strengths include the size of the economy, macroeconomic stability, abundant low-cost labour, the rapid expansion of physical infrastructure and the ability to innovate. Its weaknesses stem from insufficient separation between market and state. T...

The debate on the autonomy of public administration vis-à-vis the political system in which it operates, is an open discussion where both opposing and complementary points of view have been expounded. Understanding how the concept of modernization has developed is an important aspect of this debate because it helps us understand that public administration responds to the imperatives of the hist...

Overall HIV Trends The HIV epidemic in Latin America is stable, and the adult HIV prevalence, at 0.4 percent, has remained unchanged between 2001 and 2010. The epidemic in the Caribbean has slowed significantly since the mid-1990s. The adult HIV prevalence in the Caribbean declined from 1.0 in 2001 to 0.9 in 2010. In 2010, about 76,000 people in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries d...

1 Villar J, Carolli G, Wojdyla D, et al, for the WHO Antenatal Care Trial Research Group. Preeclampsia, gestational hypertension and intrauterine growth restriction, related or independent conditions? Am J Obstet Gynecol 2006; 194: 921–31. 2 Sibai BM, Caritis S, Hauth J, for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network. What we have learned ...

The evolution of psychiatry in Latin America reflects the merger of three different types of human interactions. The first one is represented by the aborigine cultures that prevailed in this Continent before its discovery. This group in primarily represented by the Aztec and Incas Indians who primordially occupied Mexico and Peru respectively. The second one is primarily exemplified by the Span...

OBJECTIVE To examine the tobacco industry's strategy to avoid regulations on secondhand smoke exposure in Latin America. METHODS Systematic search of tobacco industry documents available through the internet. All available materials, including confidential reports regarding research, lobbying, and internal memoranda exchanged between the tobacco industry representatives, tobacco industry lawy...

The rise of China is shaping developing countries around the world. The infamous SinoAfrican relationship has highlighted the detrimental effects of unconditional Chinese aid and trade in developing regions. Corrupt countries are now able to access large amounts of aid with “no-strings attached.” Even more, China’s hunger for natural resources has caused many African economies to increasingly r...

The influence of cultural patterns and economic conditions on health perceptions in Latin America is studied using the results of the 2007 Gallup World Poll. The differences in health satisfaction between countries around the world have a robust association with variables that may reflect cultural differences rather than with aggregate economic variables or traditional health indicators. Simple...