Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
CEPAL Review
Author: Decentralization of Agricultural Planning Systems in Latin America
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251029039
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Economic Crisis and Policy Choice
Author: Joan M. NelsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691228159
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The acute economic pressures of the 1980s have forced virtually all of Latin America and Africa and some countries in Asia into painful austerity programs and difficult economic reforms. Scholars have intensively analyzed the economics of this situation, but they have given much less attention to the political forces involved. In this volume a number of eminent contributors analyze the politics of adjustment in thirteen countries and nineteen governments, drawing comparisons not only across the full set of cases but also within clusters selected to clarify specific issues. Why do some governments respond promptly to signs of economic trouble, while others muddle indecisively for years? Why do some confine their response to temporary macroeconomic measures, while others adopt broader, even sweeping, programs of reform? What leads some countries to experiment with heterodox approaches, while most, however reluctantly, pursue orthodox courses? Why, confronted with intense political protest, have some governments persisted while others have altered or abandoned course? The answers to these questions are political, not economic, and they are examined here by Thomas M. Callaghy, Stephan Haggard, Miles Kahler, Robert R. Kauman, Joan M. Nelson, and Barbara Stallings.
Stabilization and Structural Adjustment
Author: Finn TarpPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134891989
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book reveals and examines the relevance of the macroeconomic theory and models behind recommendations for stabilization and structual adjustment. Alternaive analytical approaches are discusses. This is done on the basis of an up-to-date review of developments in sub-saharan Africa during the 1980's and within a common analytical framework.
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Author: Educational Planning
Author: Jacques HallakPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136517839
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
It was in a context of unprecedented economic growth that educational planning developed in the 1960s. At the time, educational planners were entrusted with orchestrating the tremendous expansion of schooling, with the aim of both universalizing education and providing national economies with the qualified manpower needed. Such rigid mandatory planning is not suited to today's world, but other forms of planning such as policy analysis, policy dialog, labor market analysis, and strategic management are still valid. The following is a complete list of reprinted essays collected for this book.
Education and Social Change in Latin America
Author: Carlos Alberto TorresPublisher: James Nicholas Publishers
ISBN: 1875408053
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Education and Social Change in Latin America is a valuable addition to the area studies literature in Comparative Education. Torres knits contributions from recognized North and South American experts to produce a comprehensive tapestry of analyses of both formal and non-formal education in Latin America. The book constitutes an excellent example of the application of a broad social science perspective to the study of education, viewed as a constituent sub-system. The foci of non-formal education (Part I), political socialisation (Part II), and the impact of social change upon education in Brazil (Part III) facilitates a broad range of comparisons. A balance between the often-contradictory perspectives-economic, anthropological, sociological and political-provides the reader with a comprehensive “snapshot” of trends and developments in Latin American education during the crucial 1980s. This inter-disciplinary examination of aspects of Latin American education has a broad range of applications, ranging from introductory courses to senior seminars to a valuable research tool. What would otherwise be an exceptional book is rendered even more valuable by Torres’ conversation with Paulo Freire. While Torres is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on Freire, this chapter explores Freire as a human being, an educator, and introduces some of the contradictions faced by a world renowned adult educator who assumed the mantle of an administrator in the formal education system in his native Brazil between 1989 and 1991.
British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal, and Spain
Author: List of Recent Periodical Articles
Author: International Monetary Fund LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Annual Review of United Nations Affairs
Author: Clyde EagletonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Contains the proceedings of the 1st- Institute for Annual Review of United Nations Affairs, New York University, 1949-