The Center supports analytic studies, policy relevant research, training and outreach activities to assist developing countries in the design and implementation of policies to foster growth, democracy, and the rule of law. Professor Karl has published widely on comparative politics and international relations, with special emphasis on the politics of oil-exporting countries, transitions to demo...

BACKGROUND European comparative studies documented a clear North-South divide in socioeconomic inequalities with cancer being the most important contributor to inequalities in total mortality among middle aged men in Latin Europe (France, Spain, Portugal, Italy). The aim of this paper is to investigate educational inequalities in mortality by gender, age and causes of death in France, with a sp...

The article considers the literary and stylistic peculiarities of Neo-Latin poetry in seventeenth to eighteenth-century Ukraine. Latin that time is marked by variability diversity genres, for it logically continued classical traditions at same was influenced aesthetics poetics Baroque due interlingual contacts. language supposed be main criterion high style a poetry. As genre peculiarities, ten...

Despite considerable theoretical gains in our understanding of the origins of modern social insurance programs in industrialized countries, relatively few studies of such programs in Latin America directly address or challenge the theoretical approaches used in the European and North American contexts. This paper contributes to our understanding of the origins of the welfare state in Latin Amer...

In the last decade, food and territorial planning has been proposed in European, North American Latin cities as a useful tool to promote health nutritional security of citizens, foster sustainability metropolitan agroecosystem regenerate resilient healthy links between city nearby agricultural rural territories face various global local scale phenomena.

As the leading cancer killer of women in developing countries, cervical cancer accounts for more than a quarter million deaths each year, more than 50% of cases occur within the Asian-Pacific region, which can be prevented by appropriate interventions. Therefore, in 2005, we have developed an expert multi-disciplinary group within the region and along the lines of European Research Organization...

More than 50% of cervical cancer cases in the developing world occur within the Asian-Pacific region. Therefore, in 2005, we have developed an expert multi-disciplinary group within the region and along the lines of European Research Organization on Genital Infection and Neoplasia (EUROGIN)/ European Course on HPV Associated Pathology Virus (ECHPV), as developed for Europe and, more recently, L...

The author, an historian of political ideas, makes the case for multilingual, ‘European’ dictionaries, which should replace the current, bilingual dictionaries. While these are the product of a ‘Europe of nations’, the multilingual dictionaries from a historical point of view prove that European history is a unified entity, while, from a political point of view, they aim to render more complete...

1 A partial draft of this paper was circulated under the title ‘‘Discretionary Policy and Economic Volatility’’ in October 1995. We thank Robert Becker, Camelia Bejan, Marco Celentani, V. V. Chari, Russell Cooper, John Driffill, David Levine, Rody Manuelli, Albert Marcet, Ken West, and Bill Zame for helpful comments, without implicating them in the results. Earlier versions of the paper were pr...

This article proposes a non-exhaustive panorama of the experiences observation made by Africans or ethnologists, Asian Latin Americans in Europe, trying to draw some lines reflection on their conditions emergence as fundamental asymmetry which characterizes them when put comparison with European anthropologists formerly colonized societies margin Europe.