• By our calculations, at the current rate of change, 5 Europe will reach that goal in 2018, North America in 2021 - and Latin America in 2042, a generation from now. (egonzehnder.com)
  • Since 1990, reports of human infections increased in Europe ( 5 - 10 ), North America ( 11 - 15 ), and Australia ( 16 , 17 ). (cdc.gov)
  • North America , Europe , Asia Pacific , Latin America and Rest of the World. (prnewswire.com)
  • North America accounted for lion's share in the global EHR market Governmental funding encouraging the meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology across health care facilities, increasing pressure for health care cost containment, and rising demand for improved quality of health care services are the major factors boosting the growth of the EHR market. (prnewswire.com)
  • The largest desert in North America is home to biodiverse grasslands that store large amounts of carbon and contribute to the livelihood of millions of people. (nrdc.org)
  • Recognizing the status of Latinas as a double minority in North America, this community defines and implements strategies to improve the participation of the current and next generations of Latinas in technology. (cra.org)
  • These dual strategies complement the work done by the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) that focused on the recruitment and retention of minority students in computing-based fields in North America, and the work done by the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) to grow the research pipeline of women in computing. (cra.org)
  • What about Latina participation in computing outside of North America? (cra.org)
  • We are both Latin Americans that decided to continue their graduate studies in North America (Natalie at the Carnegie Mellon University, Jocelyn at the University of Toronto). (cra.org)
  • Each of these incredible women are subjects of their own major retrospectives in 2016 and 2017: Carmen Herrera at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Lygia Pape at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Mira Schendel at the Tate Modern in London. (phillips.com)
  • United States- Latin America and the Caribbean Trade Developments 2016-2017 explains that trade features prominently in the new administration's economic agenda. (cepal.org)
  • With respect to Central America, the report recalls that the United States co-hosted with Mexico the Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America in June, 2017. (cepal.org)
  • The Innovation in mining: Latin American 2017 study outlines the broader issues LATAM mining sector faces and how they can address the gaps in their innovating capabilities. (deloitte.com)
  • The October 2018 Journal of Democracy features a seven-article cluster on recent changes in Latin America's political landscape, an essay on " Why National Identity Matters ," and more. (ned.org)
  • It takes time and effort to cultivate the right image to succeed when running for office in South America, writes political communications expert Walter Nessi. (ipra.org)
  • Again, despite the progress that has been made in containing guerrilla activities in places like El Salvador and Guatemala and the general decrease in the sort of popular unrest that marked the region in the past, the root causes of insurgency and the sporadic leftist-backed political violence that continues to occur in the Caribbean and in South America will be difficult to eliminate. (cia.gov)
  • Part of the meaning behind the Pan-American congresses, treaties, etc., can be found in these figures of U.S. exports to South America. (marxists.org)
  • Does this inequality mean war in which the American and Japanese wage slaves will, among other things, fight to determine whether Japanese or North American goods shall be found in the bazaars of India, the fairs of South America and the market places generally of the world? (marxists.org)
  • A 23 percent increase in migrants detained at the U.S. border this year is comprised largely of families from Central America. (blogspot.com)
  • Soviet and Cuban backing for the Sandinista regime and its efforts to promote revolution in Central America are just the most publicized part of the picture. (cia.gov)
  • As a result of these developments, it is important for Latin America's boards and CEOs - regardless of the level of priority they personally place on gender diversity - to have a clear understanding of the state of boardroom gender diversity in their country and region. (egonzehnder.com)
  • Some sincere Catholics believe that Latin America's Zika pandemic forces practicing Catholics to choose between the well-being of their future children and the well-being of their souls. (salon.com)
  • Latin America's Shifting. (ned.org)
  • Our findings suggest that pass-through in emerging economies has fallen dramatically over time, including by four-fifths among Latin America's most established inflation targeters (Chart 2). (imf.org)
  • The e-commerce giant launched in Mexico in 2015 and has since invested 52 billion pesos ($3 billion) in an effort to attract more shoppers in Latin America's second-biggest economy and get an edge on competitors such as Argentina-based Mercado Libre and retail giant Walmart. (yahoo.com)
  • Bechtel's Héctor L. García joined a panel of industry experts to discuss Latin America's significant infrastructure gap and uninterested financial lenders. (bechtel.com)
  • As of April 2016, over 60 countries in the Americas, the Pacific Islands, South-east Asia and Africa have reported local transmission of Zika virus disease. (who.int)
  • The 2016 Egon Zehnder Latin American Board Diversity Analysis provides a snapshot of gender diversity among leading publicly traded companies from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico 1 , and proposes recommendations to help increase gender diversity in Latin American boardrooms. (egonzehnder.com)
  • Joao Veloso, currently Head of Communications for Brazil, appointed as new Corporate Communications Director for Latin America. (bmwgroup.com)
  • These changes are due to a process that began one month ago with the integration of BMW Group Brazil operations to the Latin American region. (bmwgroup.com)
  • Dr. Alexander W. Wehr, President and CEO of BMW Group Latin America gathers all Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and importer markets under his leadership. (bmwgroup.com)
  • Solid economic growth, combined with social policies: This was the recipe for success followed by many Latin American countries like Brazil. (bertelsmann-stiftung.de)
  • Deloitte examined 17 mining companies (both majors and minors) in six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, to provide a comparison between the innovation activities undertaken by mining companies in Latin America and around the world. (deloitte.com)
  • The birth prevalence of microcephaly in Brazil increased sharply during 2015-2016. (cdc.gov)
  • Zika & family planning: Will Latin American Catholics really have to choose between the well-being of their children and the well-being of their souls? (salon.com)
  • PRESS RELEASE) Since the Pan America Health Organization issued its Zika advisory in November 2015, online requests to Women on Web for abortion pills have exponentially increased, according to a new study from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). (reproductiverights.org)
  • The NEJM study analyzes data of online requests for medication abortion through Women on Web between January 1, 2010 and March 2, 2016 in 19 Latin American countries, assessing whether requests for abortion increase after the Pan American Health Organization issued its Zika alert. (reproductiverights.org)
  • By January 2016, a total of 3,530 suspected microcephaly cases had been reported, many of which occurred in infants born to women who lived in or had visited areas where Zika virus transmission was occurring. (cdc.gov)
  • On 1 February 2016, WHO announced that the recent cluster of neurological disorders and neonatal malformations reported in the Americas region constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) and called for a global response to the spread of Zika virus disease. (who.int)
  • As of May 2016, no countries of the Region have reported importation of Zika virus disease or autochthonous transmission. (who.int)
  • According to the model developed by the authors, the Zika epidemic in Latin America would be controlled within three years, at most(1). (bvsalud.org)
  • In the spring of 2019, staff members in the Carter Center's Latin America and Caribbean Program traveled to Mérida, capital of Mexico's Yucatán state, to present a report about Mexico's human rights system. (cartercenter.org)
  • As a result of increasing rates of acute infections in reproductive-aged persons and subsequent chronic infections, overall rates of HCV infections during pregnancy have increased by 20% during 2016-2020 and up to tenfold during 2000-2019 ( 6 , 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Premian a jugadores de México en la Serie Latinoamericana 2016. (wikipedia.org)
  • When comparing these five Latin American countries as a group with Europe and the United States and Canada (Figure 2), we see that Latin America lags behind the other two regions, both in terms of actual percentages of women's participation and in the rate of annual increase. (egonzehnder.com)
  • Problematic pests of cotton and soybeans in five Latin American countries currently are effectively controlled by Bt crops. (bvsalud.org)
  • The key to many of the policies of American imperialism, both in relation to Latin America and to Japan, may be found in the following facts and figures, the latter taken from a Panama newspaper. (marxists.org)
  • How does international migration contribute to sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean? (cepal.org)
  • WRI recruited local and regional institutions such as Bioversity International, CATIE, CIAT, Fundación Agreste, ICRAF, Instituto Humboldt, IUCN and Sustainable Amazon Foundation to become partners, making this an initiative supported by Latin American institutions. (wri.org)
  • But the migrant flow towards the U.S. is now composed mostly of Central Americans, who are massively fleeing rampant gang violence in the Northern Triangle countries. (blogspot.com)
  • Violence from gangs and organized crime, sexual based violence, and internal displacement are a few of many root causes pushing families and children from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to leave their home countries," notes a Latin American Working Group report from earlier this year. (blogspot.com)
  • And Central American countries have urged the U.S. to review its policies on Cuban migrants, who have been traveling through the region in an attempt to reach the U.S. where they have preferential status. (blogspot.com)
  • Colombia also has a higher percentage of single-parent households compared to other Latin American countries in the study (84 percent versus the regional average of 65 percent 3 ), suggesting a culture in which the economic independence of women has been more strongly established. (egonzehnder.com)
  • In 2016, 220 new food products containing blueberries were launched in Latin American countries, up from 218 food products launched in 2015. (statista.com)
  • Celent gathered data on 172 life and health Latin American insurers in 20 countries and was able to determine the number of available apps in the market, the current features, and processes supported. (celent.com)
  • In Latin America there is great enthusiasm for astronomy and interest in developing local observatories but there are few astronomers in these countries able to develop new talents. (astro4dev.org)
  • Inflation has remained stubbornly above central bank targets in some Latin American countries and two of the region's largest economies-Venezuela and Argentina-have the highest inflation rates in the world (Chart 1). (imf.org)
  • But in other Latin American countries, exchange rate pass-through remains larger than warranted. (imf.org)
  • But there is substantial variation in pass-through estimates among Latin American countries, and our estimates suggest that second-round effects remain important in the region (Chart 3). (imf.org)
  • A recent annual report elaborated by the ECLAC Washington Office provides an overview of the most relevant developments in United States trade relations with Latin America and the Caribbean and of the measures that inhibit the free flow of goods among countries in the Western Hemisphere. (cepal.org)
  • The rapid increase in China's engagement has raised concerns that it could enable or pressure Latin American countries to erode gains made on labor, environmental, and human rights in an effort to promote a more favorable business environment for Chinese companies. (brookings.edu)
  • Harold Trinkunas assesses how economic relations between China and Latin America-particularly trade, investment, and loans from China to Latin American countries-affects China's ability to influence domestic politics in the Western Hemisphere. (brookings.edu)
  • In the latest deal, Grünenthal agreed to acquire exclusive rights to Zurampic in all 28 EU member states, as well as Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Lichtenstein-and in all Latin American countries, including Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. (genengnews.com)
  • The development of China cannot be possible without the development of other developing countries, including countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. (xinhuanet.com)
  • As important members of emerging economies and the developing world, Latin American and Caribbean countries play a major role in safeguarding world peace and development. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Since the dawn of the new century, Latin American and Caribbean countries have actively explored development paths suited to their own conditions and attained achievements that have attracted the world's attention. (xinhuanet.com)
  • In 2008, the Chinese government issued its first policy paper on Latin America and the Caribbean, putting forward the goal of establishing a comprehensive and cooperative partnership featuring equality, mutual benefit and common development with Latin American and Caribbean countries. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Countries in Latin America are seizing the opportunity to restore degraded landscapes, capturing gains in agricultural production, soil and water quality, and conservation of biodiversity, while also creating sizable carbon sinks. (wri.org)
  • Planting Bt crops has reduced the use of synthetic insecticides on cotton, maize and soybean fields in 11 countries throughout Latin America . (bvsalud.org)
  • A similar situation has been observed in six Latin American countries where Bt maize is planted. (bvsalud.org)
  • It's time that Latin American countries take real, evidence-based steps to combat the spread of this virus while protecting women's fundamental human rights. (reproductiverights.org)
  • Some countries in Latin America have advised women to postpone pregnancies until this potentially severe health risk is better understood. (who.int)
  • Our latest Regional Economic Outlook: Western Hemisphere revisits the question of exchange rate pass-through in Latin America. (imf.org)
  • The Carter Center thanks CAF - Development Bank of Latin America - for renewing its support of our Americas Program work to strengthen peace, dialogue, democracy, and human rights in the Western Hemisphere. (cartercenter.org)
  • Others have raised the concern that China's influence over Latin American governments may have negative geopolitical consequences for the United States, possibly even posing a national security threat. (brookings.edu)
  • Through Initiative 20x20, the first regional commitment to forest and landscape restoration at scale in Latin America, a group of governments pledged to restore over 23.8 million hectares (59 million acres), attracting $670 million in impact investment pledges. (wri.org)
  • Yet, violence is only beginning to be considered historically: not as a natural feature of Latin American cultures or a byproduct of structural inequalities, but as a phenomenon at the fulcrum of society and politics. (ucpress.edu)
  • Some 22 million people live in and around Mexico City, one of the biggest urban centers in Latin America. (yahoo.com)
  • This is a joint statement of the American Thoracic Society and the Centers for Disease Control. (cdc.gov)
  • Historically, the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have provided guidance on the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of tuberculosis in the United States and Canada. (cdc.gov)
  • In this report, Celent revisited each company's website in the Latin American region and revised what apps they had available by Q2 2016. (celent.com)
  • Vladimir Mello, currently Corporate Communications Director for Latin America, will assume a new leadership position at the company's headquarters in Munich (Germany). (bmwgroup.com)
  • Small businesses are an unmistakable engine of economic growth in Latin America, and a critical part of any international company's supply chain when it works in the region. (bechtel.com)
  • This entry was posted in Equity , Social determinants and tagged Caribbean Region , Equity in Health , Latin America , Social Determinants of Health , Social inequality , Tuberculosis by Editor Equity/Equidad - CG . (bvsalud.org)
  • Celent has released a new report titled Consumer Mobile Apps in Latin America: 2016 Life and Health Edition . (celent.com)
  • The United Nations Network on Migration, which in Latin America and the Caribbean is coordinated by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through the Latin American and Caribbean Center for Demography (CELADE) - Population Division, has prepared this Report. (cepal.org)
  • The consortium led by Oxford Information Labs was then contracted in early 2016 and now presents the initial draft report for public comments. (icann.org)
  • The Innovation in mining Australia 2016 report highlights results on the state of innovation at work in Australia, presenting the innovation landscape as it stands and identifying key innovation drivers and focus areas from which to bring to life the mine of tomorrow. (deloitte.com)
  • On Sept. 15, members of the Center's Americas Program traveled to Bogotá, Colombia, for the launch of Trayectoria Institucional de los DDH en Colombia: Retos para Tiempos de Paz, a new publication produced by The Carter Center. (cartercenter.org)
  • This was the first high-level summit between the Central American and the Trump Administration authorities and was intended to set the tone for the relationship for years to come. (cepal.org)
  • David Mares, the director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at UC San Diego, looks ahead to how a Trump presidency will impact Latin America. (uctv.tv)
  • Arctic Wildlife Refuge: Why Trash an American Treasure for a Tiny Percentage of Our Oil Needs? (nrdc.org)
  • WRI helped launch Initiative 20x20, a country-led effort to bring 20 million hectares (49 million acres) of land in Latin America and the Caribbean into restoration by 2020, at the Lima COP20 climate conference. (wri.org)
  • Economics of climate change in Latin America and. (cepal.org)
  • Principal component analysis on noncore genes showed a clear distinction between strains from Europe and Latin America, whereas the plasmid gene content was similar. (cdc.gov)
  • Recent figures show an overall increase in female participation in the Latin American labor force, reaching 52.6% in 2015 [2]. (cra.org)
  • Exchange rates in Latin America are rising fast, with Brazil's real appreciating almost 40 percent since 2008. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • As of January 2016, transmission had been confirmed in 22 of Brazil's 26 states and the federal district, and in all five regions of the country. (cdc.gov)
  • Violence is an important theme across the social sciences and humanities for scholars who work on Latin America. (ucpress.edu)
  • Accelerating the rate of change is important because of how much Latin America will fall behind other regions if no action is taken. (egonzehnder.com)
  • As Latin America becomes an increasingly important part of the global economy, investors, corporate governance experts and other observers are beginning to examine the region's companies against global norms. (egonzehnder.com)
  • MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Amazon on Thursday inaugurated its largest last-mile delivery center in Latin America, a warehouse in Mexico's capital, as it seeks to offer faster deliveries in one of the region's most populous cities. (yahoo.com)
  • As a collection, the Violence in Latin American History series challenges essentialist views of a violent Latin America by tackling the central role of violence in the region's history. (ucpress.edu)
  • 4 However, the rate of change in Latin America, while lower than elsewhere, is still positive, which suggests that the idea of gender diversity in the boardroom may be gaining some traction. (egonzehnder.com)
  • Falling global commodity prices and the normalization of monetary policy in the United States have contributed to widespread currency depreciations in Latin America. (imf.org)
  • Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole boasts huge development potentials and bright prospects, making it a rising force in the global landscape. (xinhuanet.com)
  • In Mexico 2016 brought a marked increase in homicides -- of nearly 20 percent -- the highest rate of President Enrique Peña Nieto's six years of government, reports Animal Político . (blogspot.com)
  • Diego Camargo, currently BMW Group Latin America Customer Support Director, is appointed as BMW Group Mexico CEO. (bmwgroup.com)
  • BMW Group Financial Services announces a new CEO for Mexico and Latin America. (bmwgroup.com)
  • Spiros Philippas will replace Matthias Schlesiger as CEO of BMW Group Financial Services for Mexico and Latin America. (bmwgroup.com)
  • The new Mexico City site, measuring 30,000 square meters (more than 322,000 square feet), is the largest Latin America 'delivery station' for Amazon, referring to warehouses that specialize in last-mile deliveries to consumers. (yahoo.com)
  • In early 2014, Celent explored the app market for insurance clients in Latin America and learnt that about 12% of insurers in the region had developed apps for their clients, though with limited capabilities. (celent.com)
  • Furthermore, in 2016 about 30% of life and health insurers in Latin America are offering consumers-focused mobile apps and the majority of insurers in the region have plans to undertake projects related to mobile initiatives. (celent.com)
  • BMW Group Latin America seeks more competitiveness, versatility and efficiency in the region. (bmwgroup.com)
  • ICANN's Latin America and the Caribbean Strategic Plan defined four key areas of interest as strategic focus for the region. (icann.org)
  • However, existing gender stereotypes in the region, like the expectation that women should be primary caregivers, as well as a lack of professional development opportunities, means that women in Latin America are shying away from STEM careers like computing. (cra.org)
  • Our goal as general co-chairs of this conference was to bring together people and organizations from all over Latin America to discuss the role of women in computing in the region, as well as issues affecting women in technology. (cra.org)
  • The increase in private renewables investment in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region have been driven by sharp declines in costs alongside supportive policies. (cepal.org)
  • China's unprecedented and impressive growth has been a great boon to Latin America in the short-term. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • Not only has China become a new source of export and investment demand for Latin American commodities, China's demand has boosted the price of key commodities as well. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • Latin American nations need to create parallel policies to follow in China's footsteps. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • Whereas China's approach follows Deng Xiaoping's approach to globalization of "crossing the river by feeling the stones," whereby the state plays a key role in economic development, under the "Washington Consensus" many Latin American nations shocked their economies by immediately pulling the state from economic affairs. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • China's trade, investment, and loans to Latin America have grown remarkably since 2000. (brookings.edu)
  • Since 2013, the Chinese leadership has set forth a series of major initiatives and measures on strengthening China's relations and cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean in a wide range of areas, which has provided new development goals and new driving forces for the relations. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Building on the previous achievements, the Chinese government hereby releases its second policy paper on Latin America and the Caribbean, to summarize experience, draw a blueprint for the future, provide a comprehensive explanation of the new ideas, proposals and initiatives in China' s Latin America and Caribbean policy for the new era, and promote China's cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean in various areas. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Well over $50 billion of Latin American products, chiefly iron and copper ores, soya, and crude oil, will reach China this year as well. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • In order for Latin American nations to leverage its new economic relationship with China for long run benefit, Latin Americans will have to use newfound gains to enable macroeconomic stability, economic diversification, and environmental protection. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • Read stories below to learn how The Carter Center is improving the lives of women, children, and men in Latin America and the Caribbean. (cartercenter.org)
  • After almost two years of planning, the result was LAtINiTY, the first conference for Latin American Women in Technology, held in Santiago, Chile during November 2015. (cra.org)
  • It is our belief that this gap will put Latin American boards at a significant disadvantage in helping their companies compete in a world in which women represent half (or more) of the purchasing power and a growing share of the talent pool. (egonzehnder.com)
  • We reviewed Apple's iTunes Store, Google Play, Blackberry World, and Windows App store in search of apps provided by Latin American insurers and analyzed the type of functionalities available. (celent.com)
  • In my book with Uruguayan political economist Roberto Porzecanski, The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization , we show that Latin American firms are losing ground to China in world and home markets. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • Indeed, prices are on the rise in Latin America while they stagnate in the rest of the world. (imf.org)
  • The major element missing from Latin American politics in recent decades has been, with rare exceptions, the traditional workers' movement, beaten down by flexibilization, subcontracting, and other neoliberal measures. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Sound of Religion is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in cooperation with the American Religious Sounds Project of The Ohio State University and Michigan State University and made possible through the generous support of The Henry Luce Foundation. (si.edu)
  • It is up to Latin American nations to translate these short-term gains into longer-run economic development. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • Unlike in the U.S. where the election of one party means putting more emphasis on some aspects of the political platform, in Latin America most often it means radically changing economic, social and even international partners. (ipra.org)
  • The American Bird Conservancy shared news on June 3rd that a bird that hasn't been seen for 16 years was spotted again in Venezuela. (uwm.edu)
  • The competition took place at Estadio Stanley Cayasso in Managua, Nicaragua from January 26 to January 31, 2016. (wikipedia.org)
  • The society track let people and organizations showcase initiatives carried out during 2014-2015 to promote the participation of women in computing in Latin America. (cra.org)
  • Restrictive abortion laws are prevalent throughout Latin America, leading women to turn to organizations such as Women on Web to end pregnancies. (reproductiverights.org)
  • The campaign is directed at Western Europe, Latin America, the U.S. and to a lesser extent Australia and New Zealand. (cia.gov)
  • We investigated the evolutionary relatedness between sequence type 28 strains from Europe and Latin America using time-resolved phylogeny and principal component analysis. (cdc.gov)
  • Phylogenetic time trees and effective population sizes ( N e ) showed separate clustering of strains from Latin America and Europe. (cdc.gov)
  • AstraZeneca said today it has granted exclusive rights to the gout-associated hyperuricemia drug Zurampic ® (lesinurad) in Europe and Latin America to Grünenthal, in a licensing deal that could generate up to $230 million-plus for the pharma giant. (genengnews.com)