Estabilidad y gradualismo

"Analyzes the structural process of the economic opening begun in 1990. Unlike past economic liberalizations, this process is not contingent upon availability of hard currency, but obeys a long-term economic strategy designed to stimulate growth. The process is deployed across several fronts in addition to international trade, among them, renewed exchange rate and fiscal policy, financial and tax reform, foreign investment incentives and new labor laws. The book offers background for sector and industry leaders, and a complete bibliography"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

To date, the growing body of literature about Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) has focused primarily on questions of policy design. It has widely neglected the beneficiaries of policy and their lives beyond DDR programmes. The present study intends to balance this shortcoming by systematically describing the individual perspective of ex-combatants. Through a series of 62 interviews with former Colombian paramilitaries, the themes that are central to their lives are identified. The selection of the interviewees and the interview analysis draw on grounded theory. The goal of...

En esta publicación se trata la historia del Canal del siglo XIX, y su desenlace con la separación de Panamá de Colombia el 3 de noviembre de 1903.

Este fascinante nuevo libro de Fabiola Pardo es uno de los primeros de este tipo en brindar una perspectiva comparativa sobre la inmigración latinoamericana en Europa desde los años 1970. Enfocado en Ámsterdam, Londres y Madrid, este trabajo explora las maneras como los inmigrantes negocian las circunstancias complejas políticas, económicas y culturales en las ciudades donde se establecen. El libro se alimenta empíricamente en datos cualitativos amplios y profundos basados en entrevistas, grupos focales y observación participante, complementados con un análisis documental y...