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North AmericaSouth AmericaAfricaAmerica'sCaribbeanProtestsBrazil2021Central AmericaArgentinaCountriesEcuadorPovertyPeruCarbon emissionsVenezuelaColombiaAfrican-AmericansDecadeRegion'sSubstantialCenturiesChileTies2020NotablyDictatorshipsCountry'sExploresProtestDominican RepublicCorruptionReflectsEconomicWorldDevelopmentsPoliticalVenezuelanEarlyGrowthReformsMilitaryAbortionDiscriminationPeopleEstimatesStudyPastRegionsPopulationChallengesResponse
North America10
South America1
  • It should have been the Norway of South America, and with perfect weather all year round. (lu.se)
Africa7
  • The global organization of inequality is not affected by the fact that (for example) Brazil now exports Volkswagens to other South American countries and to the distant markets of Africa and the Middle East. (truthout.org)
  • In contrast, Africa, Europe, India and Latin America together accounted for just 11.1% of global wealth growth. (credit-suisse.com)
  • These overlapping systems of phenotype-based stratification are rooted in the European conquest, colonization, and enslavement of visibly different people from Africa, Asia , and Latin America beginning near the end of the fifteenth century. (encyclopedia.com)
  • It occurs in India, Africa (particularly the Sudan and Kenya), Central Asia, the area around the Mediterranean, South and Central America, and rarely China. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Africa could be the future in a world where the European and American economies are weakened and China's extreme growth has slowed down. (lu.se)
  • Eventually the emerging south-south relations between Africa, Asia and Latin America could open up for new economic collaborations. (lu.se)
  • Africa continues to grapple with enormous challenges such as widespread poverty, the need for education and healthcare, underdeveloped infrastructure, low-producing agriculture, uncontrolled urbanisation and corruption. (lu.se)
America's9
  • The former, one of Latin America's largest gold projects, was under contract to Canada's Crystallex, which had waited in vain for years for an environmental license to start mining. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some have argued that Latin America's "golden decade" was mostly dumb luck-resulting from a benevolent external environment: high prices for commodity exports, abundant international liquidity, innovations in financial services, and low-cost capital. (heritage.org)
  • In other words, how well did Latin America's golden decade move the region's economic fundamentals toward those of the world's wealthier and more advanced economies? (heritage.org)
  • First published over four decades ago, this remarkable work traces five centuries of the exploitation of Latin America's people and resources, from European settlement and colonial desecration to the United States' efforts to achieve political dominance over the region. (truthout.org)
  • Latin America's middle class is expanding. (forbes.com)
  • There is no denying that most of Latin America's countries continue to be considered mid- to high-risk markets. (controlrisks.com)
  • 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)
  • However muffled the language may be, President Uribe is destined to be Latin America's most scorned president in modern times. (coha.org)
  • This Caribbean group produced 75 percent of Latin America's crude oil output in 1987. (cdc.gov)
Caribbean11
  • Latin America and the Caribbean in particular were unequal before and are only more so now. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Earnings from the " informal economy "-which includes street vendors, construction workers, and domestic laborers-represented more than a third of GDP in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2010 to 2014, as per the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • More than 300 leaders of social organisations, unions and people's movements from across Latin America and the Caribbean gathered ahead of the CELAC meeting, reports Fernanda Paixão . (greenleft.org.au)
  • International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates for 2016 to 2020 are bleak, with average growth in the Latin America and the Caribbean region of just 2.2 percent annually. (heritage.org)
  • The Latin American and Caribbean region is the first in the world to reach the two global targets for reducing hunger. (truthout.org)
  • The Latin America and Caribbean Council on Renewable Energy (LAC-CORE) Finance Summit 2016, held in Miami, drew bankers, investors, project developers and government officials from across the region to discuss recent trends in the region's clean energy sector, which posted significant advances in shifting toward non-fossil energy sources in recent years. (abtassociates.com)
  • The region's continued leadership was on display during the three-day Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum. (abtassociates.com)
  • Energy and mineral potential of the Central American-Caribbean region. (cdc.gov)
  • Of the 12 countries in all of Latin America that produce crude oil, seven are located in the Caribbean region. (cdc.gov)
  • The Caribbean Basin is the only area in all of Latin America with installed capacity to exploit geothermal energy sources. (cdc.gov)
  • Since that time, local transmission has been reported in many other countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean. (cdc.gov)
Protests2
  • CALI, Colombia-When the COVID-19 pandemic began to affect Latin America in early March 2020-bringing with it the same lockdowns and economic shutdowns seen elsewhere-it stopped a regional wave of protests in its tracks. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • This weekend, thousands of Cubans took part in widespread anti-government protests that ended with hundreds of arrests. (wunc.org)
Brazil6
  • It also analyzes Latin American countries grouped in the region's three blocs (the ALBA [3] countries plus Argentina, the Pacific Alliance, and Brazil) and examines their weaknesses and strengths as measured by the Index . (heritage.org)
  • Historically, most of the ecosystem value in Latin America has been concentrated in two countries: Brazil and Argentina. (forbes.com)
  • Recent strides in the fight against corruption have demonstrated that Latin America is eager to become a more attractive destination for foreign investment from companies in countries with FCPA-type regulations and laws thus avoiding huge, bruising scandals like the Car Wash investigation in Brazil that led to political instability and profound damage to some of Brazil's biggest companies. (controlrisks.com)
  • As carefully documented by Edward Telles in Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil (2004), brown and black Brazilians are disadvantaged on all socioeconomic indicators relative to whites, and the gap between browns and blacks is quite small. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In May 2015, the Pan American Health Organization issued an alert regarding the first confirmed ZIKV infection in Brazil. (cdc.gov)
  • Brazil reported widespread ZIKV disease in adults and children, and a concomitant and significant rise in the number of infants born with microcephaly, as well as increases in miscarriages. (cdc.gov)
20213
  • 2021 was a bumper year for household wealth driven by widespread gains in share prices and a favorable environment created by central bank policies in 2020 to lower interest rates, but at the cost of inflationary pressures. (credit-suisse.com)
  • In the United States, African American and Hispanic households saw the largest percentage increase in wealth in 2021 thanks to increases in non-financial wealth - mostly housing. (credit-suisse.com)
  • The most significant development in 2021 was the widespread and sizable gains in share prices. (credit-suisse.com)
Central America2
  • While there, I presented about Abt's work in Central America under USAID's Climate Economic Analysis for Development, Investment and Resilience (CEADIR) Project. (abtassociates.com)
  • In Central America, there have been notable developments in recent years, including the addition of almost 500 MW in solar and wind generation capacity in Honduras. (abtassociates.com)
Argentina4
  • some 1200 terrorists, representing a variety of Latin American guerrilla groups, into Chile from Argentina. (cia.gov)
  • Among the 14 Spanish-speaking Latin American nations with $500 million or more in 2012 remittances, six-Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru-received more than 40% of those dollars from countries other than the U.S. or Spain. (pewresearch.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)
  • Not long ago, Venezuela together with Argentina was among the wealthiest and most well-being countries in Latin America. (lu.se)
Countries25
  • The Financial Times has held Lagos up as a role model for the rest of Latin America amid what it sees as worrying signs that some countries in the region may be ʻreturning to the bad old waysʼ of authoritarianism, violence and corruption, a decade or so on from the widespread restitution of formally democratic rule. (radicalphilosophy.com)
  • Read our latest reports on Latin America here, with analyses and market statistics that explore the evolving consumer preferences, market environment and inherent growth potential in individual countries, or briefings that assess key strategic themes and developing retail trends from a broader regional perspective. (euromonitor.com)
  • Read our latest reports on Latin America here, with analyses and market statistics that explore the evolving consumer preferences, market environment and inherent growth potential in individual countries, or briefings that assess key strategic themes. (euromonitor.com)
  • In response to a crime epidemic afflicting Latin America since the early 1990s, several countries in the region have resorted to using heavily-armed police or military units to physically retake territories controlled de facto by criminal or insurgent groups. (brookings.edu)
  • After relatively high growth in the first years of the 21st century with reduced poverty, rising incomes, and a growing middle class, [1] most countries in Latin America are now confronting a sharp economic deceleration [2] that has generated doubts about the region's economic development models and the sustainability of recent social gains. (heritage.org)
  • [6] He finds that, during the past decade, the largest countries in Latin America failed to converge toward advanced country levels in every growth driver measured. (heritage.org)
  • Although about three-quarters (78%) of all remittances to Spanish-speaking Latin American countries come from the U.S., the share varies widely from country to country. (pewresearch.org)
  • Mexico also towers over other Latin American countries in the amount of U.S. remittances it receives: $22.8 billion in 2012, accounting for more than half of money transferred to the region from the U.S. The nation with the next highest amount-Guatemala-received $4.4 billion. (pewresearch.org)
  • However, a number of Latin American nations receive a notable share of remittance funds from countries other than the U.S. or Spain. (pewresearch.org)
  • Timeline for the initial major responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in eight Latin American countries, by country. (ajtmh.org)
  • Some Latin-American countries have enacted a new type of constitutional protection of personal data in order to insure individual privacy from the abuse of data registers. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • One of the relatively most recent types of Data Protection is a new constitutional right that has been enacted in several Latin-American countries, the Habeas Data right. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • Latin American countries have enshrined the principle of political refuge, a reflection of the region's turbulent history of dictatorships and rebel movements. (latimes.com)
  • Two recent events underscore how countries in Latin America are doing just this and leading the way in reducing carbon emissions. (abtassociates.com)
  • For decades, countries in Latin America have been early movers in the adoption of technologies to decarbonize the energy sector. (abtassociates.com)
  • The IDB Lab study shows Latin America invests $7 per capita in startups per year - far from what leading countries are investing: Israel invests 117 times more, Estonia 42 times more and China seven times more. (forbes.com)
  • Widespread immigration to the U.S. from Latin countries begins. (kvie.org)
  • Indeed, it is no small task: it will take compliance teams time and effort to understand new anti-corruption legislation passed in many Latin American countries, and it will take systemic effort to instill a culture of compliance among the workforce. (controlrisks.com)
  • The average score for Latin American countries in the 2017 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) was 44 out of 100 (For comparison, Asia-Pacific scored 44, and Western Europe scored 66. (controlrisks.com)
  • Otherwise, Latin American countries in the past year have generally raised their hands in an effort to regulate and implement policies to fight corruption in the region. (controlrisks.com)
  • 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)
  • The production of gold is relatively widespread and not as concentrated in a few countries as is that of bauxite and iron ore. (cdc.gov)
  • This entry was posted in Equity and tagged Global Health , Knowledge Sharing , Latin America , Low- and Middle-Income Countries by Editor Equity/Equidad - CG . (bvsalud.org)
  • I believe that in Latinamerica we still were getting cheap oil from Venezuela, and in countries like mine we were also silent given that Venezuela had been harbouring and pushing the Farc leaders to get into the peace process that culminated last year. (lu.se)
Ecuador1
  • In terms of dollars, Spain also contributed more to Ecuador than to any other Latin American nation ($1.2 billion). (pewresearch.org)
Poverty3
Peru1
  • Senior U.S. officials, along with Latin American leaders and the Organization of American States, urged Panama to accept Montesinos, saying it was necessary to head off turbulence or even a coup in Peru. (latimes.com)
Carbon emissions1
  • Americans and other rich nations produce the most carbon emissions per capita, he says. (npr.org)
Venezuela2
Colombia1
  • Colombia has the largest resources of coal in Latin America, estimated at about 40 billion MT, and is now the largest producer and exporter of coal in all of Latin America. (cdc.gov)
African-Americans7
  • The Black Codes , sometimes called the Black Laws , were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen ). (wikipedia.org)
  • The best known of these laws were passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War , in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and in order to compel them to work for either low or no wages. (wikipedia.org)
  • More contemporary analyses of longitudinal and cross-sectional data show that lighter skin, which is usually associated with other Eurocentric facial features, is positively correlated with education, employment, occupational prestige, and income among African Americans . (encyclopedia.com)
  • Indeed, some research suggests that educational and occupational differences between the darkest and lightest African Americans are nearly equal to the differences between whites and African Americans. (encyclopedia.com)
  • A study published in 2006 suggested that the advantage of light skin disappeared for African American cohorts born in the mid-1940s, but it is not clear if these analyses included adequate controls for sample attrition where African Americans with darker skin and a lower socioeconomic status may have been lost to the study due to higher mortality. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Thus, the most convincing evidence to date is that phenotype continues to matter for African Americans. (encyclopedia.com)
  • We didn't know that it would cause widespread, disproportionate suffering, especially to African-Americans, Latin and indigenous communities. (thehastingscenter.org)
Decade5
  • After a tough decade, a cautious optimism has returned to parts of Latin America. (americasquarterly.org)
  • It is little wonder, then, that those years were called the golden decade of Latin America. (heritage.org)
  • It is clear there will not be a second golden decade for Latin America anytime soon. (heritage.org)
  • In the past decade, Latin America has gained incredible momentum in this field, led by the tech-native generation behind unicorns like OLX and Kavak. (forbes.com)
  • In 2017, Global Network Perspectives found that Latin America was the second most enterprising region in the world , and that was before the explosion of tech-enabled startups, a category that tripled in the past four years and multiplied its value 32 times in the past decade to reach $221 billion in 2020 according to a study from IDB Lab . (forbes.com)
Region's2
  • Earlier critiques were quite severe, often permeated by the premise that studying Latin America from the North (and even the very concept of "Latin America" as an object of study) connoted the region's racial and cultural inferiority. (americasquarterly.org)
  • It is hard not to feel mild distrust for original research on Latin America (or any other world area) by scholars who cannot speak the relevant language, who lack an experience-based sense of the people and place, and who are not conversant in the region's history. (americasquarterly.org)
Substantial1
  • Rabies virus (RABV) is a well-documented viral pathogen which still inflicts heavy impact on humans, companion animals, wildlife, and livestock throughout Latin America due substantial spatial temporal and ecological-natural and expansional-overlap with several virus reservoir hosts. (cdc.gov)
Centuries1
  • For centuries, corruption has been a reality in Latin America and a word all too frequently associated with cultural, structural and endemic citizen behavior. (controlrisks.com)
Chile2
  • There's now a culture of social protest across Latin America," said Javiera Arce, a political scientist at the University of Valparaíso in Chile. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • On the surface, Chile looks like an economic and political success story, as the country's GDP growth has outpaced that of Latin America as a whole in recent years, but many Chileans are struggling. (theconversation.com)
Ties2
  • Miami was a fitting venue for this event not just because of its economic and cultural ties to Latin America, but also because the effects of climate change are increasingly evident in the frequent flooding in Miami Beach. (abtassociates.com)
  • Now, 13 of us are in startups, many with business ties to Latin America, and the last two are trying actively to make the switch. (forbes.com)
20201
  • As of 2020, IDB Lab found that two sectors represented 72% of the ecosystem value in Latin America: fintech and e-commerce. (forbes.com)
Notably1
  • Perhaps most notably, for the first time, the USPSTF has proposed widespread anxiety screening (see Infographic below). (medscape.com)
Dictatorships1
  • The history of Latin America is the experience of a deep and permanent social conflict that has been related to what Martín-Barbero calls "national identity crisis rhetoric" and which Rosanna Reguillo in turn relates, among other factors, to the "intense migratory flow in Latin America, which was motivated by the horror of dictatorships and the systematic destruction of peoples and dreams" (2005). (wri-irg.org)
Country's1
  • Some say the uproar reflects this Central American country's desire to step out of Washington's shadow. (latimes.com)
Explores1
  • The recording explores a programme of works by the hugely influential American composer Samuel Adler: the world premiere of his Sixth Symphony, his Concerto For Cello And Orchestra (featuring young cellist Maximilian Hornung) and the tone poem Drifting On Wind And Currents . (linnrecords.com)
Protest1
  • Following a government proposal to increase the price of metro tickets, students began to dodge metro fares in protest on October 14, jumping the turnstiles en masse and setting metro stations on fire. (theconversation.com)
Dominican Republic1
  • Guillermo Milton Schneider, the president of the Confederation of Tourist Organizations of Latin America (COTAL), has commended the Dominican Republic for its exceptional hospitality towards tourists. (dominicantoday.com)
Corruption2
  • Latin America is slowly but steadily catching-up with international anti-corruption enforcement trends. (controlrisks.com)
  • For both companies in the region that have long turned a blind eye to corruption risks and companies that have avoided investing in Latin America rather than engage with those risks, the time has come for a reappraisal. (controlrisks.com)
Reflects1
  • This low figure reflects widespread depreciation against the US dollar in these regions. (credit-suisse.com)
Economic4
  • Increased economic inequality has only added to widespread discontent. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • This was further aggravated by the inability to fully disentangle Latin American research from U.S. economic and geopolitical interests. (americasquarterly.org)
  • It is widely held, although not uncontested, that African American slaves and free persons of color with visible white ancestry had greater access to material goods, education, and cultural capital and, consequently, emerged as social and economic elites within African American communities after emancipation in the mid-1800s. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Our latest Regional Economic Outlook: Western Hemisphere revisits the question of exchange rate pass-through in Latin America. (imf.org)
World6
  • CCHF is considered the most widespread tickborne viral hemorrhagic disease in the world and poses a great public health risk because of its epidemic potential, high case-fatality rates in humans, and a lack of effective mitigation measures, creating an urgent need for accelerated research ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Funds transferred to Latin America account for a third (33%) of remittances from the U.S., according to World Bank data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. (pewresearch.org)
  • Because of the confusion of the English-speaking world when it says "America", and so that there is no doubt over what we will talk about in this article, the Latin American people dwells in the vast territory between the southern United States and the Chilean southern Patagonia, which amounts to almost half of the Americas. (wri-irg.org)
  • Latin Americans are a mestizo ["mixed"] people that continues to mix, and represents to the world something that is unfinished and beautiful. (wri-irg.org)
  • Indeed, prices are on the rise in Latin America while they stagnate in the rest of the world. (imf.org)
  • A propitious time is converging toward mid-June this year when a unique set of original and much needed resources on health equity that have being under development and testing by WHO, PAHO, and partners around the world reach their completion phase and become ready for deployment and widespread use. (bvsalud.org)
Developments1
  • the increasing grip on power exerted by Venezuelaʼs populist President Hugo Chavez since winning a second term in office - such recent developments have been cited as evidence of a potentially dangerous resurgence of caudillismo (Latin Americaʼs historic penchant for political strongmen) which threatens to reverse democratization. (radicalphilosophy.com)
Political1
  • As a starting point I want to highlight the fact that the history of Latin America in the twentieth century describes a chronic and permanent situation of cultural conflict traceable to its colonial legacy, a socio-political dispute between governments and peoples that collide in the framework of democracies. (wri-irg.org)
Venezuelan1
  • Adrian further argued that there is "widespread" institutional "homophobic and transphobic" discrimination in the Venezuelan government and society. (venezuelanalysis.com)
Early1
  • Between 2004 and 2013-excluding 2009, the worst year of the financial crisis-the seven largest economies in Latin America (LAC-7) [4] grew at an average rate of 5.6 percent annually, which was substantially above the historical average of 3.7 percent since the early 1990s, [5] creating the impression that Latin America had embarked on the path to a new era of development. (heritage.org)
Growth1
  • Unfortunately, little was done during the good years to implement difficult-but necessary-structural reforms to remove the real obstacles in Latin America that have limited productivity growth and thwarted convergence with more advanced economies. (heritage.org)
Reforms1
  • Neoliberal reforms were introduced in the mid-1970s by Pinochet and his team of American-trained economists, known as the "Chicago Boys" . (theconversation.com)
Military1
  • Such a view reflected the conventional wisdom which has surrounded transition and democratization processes since the so-called ʻthird waveʼ of democratization swept through Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s, replacing military despotism with elected civilian governments and thereby ending a long and bloody chapter in the regionʼs history. (radicalphilosophy.com)
Abortion3
  • The Argentine Senate's rejection of a bill to legalise abortion did not stop a Latin American-wide movement, writes Fabiana Frayssinet . (greenleft.org.au)
  • Yet, investigations of third woman in America will have at least one legal clusters of abortion-related complications led to abortion. (bvsalud.org)
  • death was attributed to abortion, whether the The American Public Health Association urges abortion was spontaneous or induced, and if medical and public health schools, residency induced, whether it was a legal or illegal abortion. (bvsalud.org)
Discrimination1
  • Latino Americans serve their country during WWII but still face discrimination at home. (kvie.org)
People2
  • It was clear then already that people had to queue for in supermarkets, shortages were widespread, and at least one episode of hyperinflation had already occurred, meaning, 30 days with an inflation above 50 percent in a month. (lu.se)
  • What does this mean for the country-for the people living there, and for Latin America in a larger context? (lu.se)
Estimates1
  • The preliminary interpretations compare favorably with previous American estimates of performance character- istics for a Soviet heavy jet bomber which is expected to be in opera- tional units in 1957. (cia.gov)
Study1
  • With declining resources for acquisition of conventionally published materials, there is a widespread assumption that digital access could be a substitute for in situ contextual study of materials. (americasquarterly.org)
Past1
  • The medium twin-jet bomber also in the fly-past, the Type-39, is similar in configuration to the Type-37 but ap- pears to be in the same size class as the American B-47. (cia.gov)
Regions1
  • We detected the virus in 135 pools from most of the regions studied, indicating that it is widespread in Spain. (cdc.gov)
Population1
  • This population represents about 47 percent, oralmostone-half, of the total population of Latin America, which is approaching 400 million. (cdc.gov)
Challenges1
  • How can Latin American studies build on the resiliency the field has demonstrated since the 1960s to meet these new challenges? (americasquarterly.org)
Response1
  • Guadamuz A, 'Habeas Data: The Latin-American Response to Data Protection', 2000 (2) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT) . (warwick.ac.uk)