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Beyond Facts

Understanding Quality of Life

By: Carmen Pagés,Carlos Scartascini,Rita Funaro,Lucía Madrigal,Suzanne Duryea,Juan Camilo Chaparro,María Victoria Rodríguez-Pombo,Eduardo Lora,Pablo Sanguinetti,William D. Savedoff,Juan Carlos Navarro,Aimee Verdisco,Mariana Alfonso,Andrew Powell

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Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates Latin America-specific questions, the Inter-American Development Bank surveyed people from throughout the region and found that perceptions of quality of life are often very different from the reality. These surprising findings have enormous significance for the political economy of the region and provide a wealth of information for policymakers and development practitioners to feast upon.

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Inter-American Development Bank

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1597820849

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9781597820844

Segmented Representation

Political Party Strategies in Unequal Democracies

By: Juan Pablo Luna

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Segmented Representation

Political Party Strategies in Unequal Democracies

By: Juan Pablo Luna

Millions of enfranchised people live in abject poverty in democracies around the world. Yet in representative democracies, the success or failure of political parties rests on their ability to effectively engage voters. In today's highly unequal and individualized societies, the diversity of voters along socioeconomic, religious, and other lines presents an obstacle for parties vying for electoral success. How, then, can widespread, crushing poverty still exist in stable democracies, if every citizen has a vote? Two wildly different parties, Chile's right-wing UDI and Uruguay's left-wing Frente Amplio, have achieved stunning victories in this supposedly inhospitable political landscape. They have done so by simultaneously segmenting and strategically harmonizing their linkages to distinct cross-sections of voters in each society. While that electoral strategy makes for a winning hand for parties in fragmented modern societies, it perpetuates the gross inequalities that characterize the social, political, and economic landscapes of the developing democratic world. This book develops a new analytical and conceptual framework to unveil and explain segmented representation, revealing new implications for democratic societies. Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

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401

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OUP Oxford

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0191612049

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9780191612046

Society of the Snow

The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story

By: Pablo Vierci

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Society of the Snow

The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story

By: Pablo Vierci

It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains to devastating consequences: the body of the plane broke violently into two, its floor torn to smithereens; seats flew out of the air taking passengers with them. In the weeks that followed, the remaining people who were on board - the society of the snow - emerged to fight a dire, gruelling battle for survival. Waiting for a rescue team that didn't arrive, the survivors became fewer and fewer in numbers. Stranded alone on a glacier, they had to face brutal temperatures, lethal avalanches and the loss of friends and family with no access to supplies, food or water. In order to survive, they had to do the unthinkable . . . It wasn't until seventy-two days later that they were able to reach safety. Alarmingly gritty, moving and powerfully told, journalist Pablo Vierci recounts the unsettling stories of the sixteen survivors in intimate detail. Drawing on exclusive interviews, Society of the Snow delves into the tragedy of the crash and how it radically redefined the rest of the survivors' lives. Ultimately, however, the book is a touching testament to the strength of faith, friendship, and the resilience of the human spirit.

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Constable

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1408716364

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9781408716366

Is the Public Investment Multiplier Higher in Developing Countries? An Empirical Exploration

By: Mr.Alejandro Izquierdo,Mr.Ruy Lama,Juan Pablo Medina,Jorge Puig,Daniel Riera-Crichton,Carlos Vegh,Guillermo Javier Vuletin

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Is the Public Investment Multiplier Higher in Developing Countries? An Empirical Exploration

By: Mr.Alejandro Izquierdo,Mr.Ruy Lama,Juan Pablo Medina,Jorge Puig,Daniel Riera-Crichton,Carlos Vegh,Guillermo Javier Vuletin

Over the last decade, empirical studies analyzing macroeconomic conditions that may affect the size of government spending multipliers have flourished. Yet, in spite of their obvious public policy importance, little is known about public investment multipliers. In particular, the clear theoretical implication that public investment multipliers should be higher (lower) the lower (higher) is the initial stock of public capital has not, to the best of our knowledge, been tested. This paper tackles this empirical challenge and finds robust evidence in favor of the above hypothesis: countries with a low initial stock of public capital (as a proportion of GDP) have significantly higher public investment multipliers than countries with a high initial stock of public capital. This key finding seems robust to the sample (European countries, U.S. states, and Argentine provinces) and to the identification method (Blanchard-Perotti, forecast errors, and instrumental variables). Our results thus suggest that public investment in developing countries would carry high returns.

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International Monetary Fund

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1513525107

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9781513525105

I Had to Survive

How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives

By: Roberto Canessa,Pablo Vierci

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I Had to Survive

How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives

By: Roberto Canessa,Pablo Vierci

Dr. Roberto Canessa recounts his side of the famous 1972 plane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andean Mountains and how, decades later, the harrowing journey to survive propelled him to become one of the world’s leading pediatric cardiologists, seeing in his patients the same fierce will to live he witnessed in the Andes. As he tended to his wounded Old Christians teammates amidst the devastating carnage, rugby player Roberto Canessa, a second-year medical student at the time, realized that no one on earth was luckier: he was alive—and for that, he should be eternally grateful. As the starving group struggled beyond the limits of what seemed possible, Canessa played a key role in safeguarding his fellow survivors, eventually trekking with a companion across the hostile mountain range for help. No one could have imagined that there were survivors from the accident in such extreme conditions. Canessa's extraordinary experience on the fine line between life and death became the catalyst for the rest of his life. This uplifting tale of hope and determination, solidarity and ingenuity, gives vivid insight into the world-famous story that inspired the movie Alive! Canessa also draws a unique and fascinating parallel between his work as a doctor diagnosing very complex congenital cardiopathies in unborn and newborn infants and the difficult life-changing decisions he was forced to make in the Andes. With grace and humanity, Canessa prompts us to ask ourselves: what do you do when all the odds are stacked against you?

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Simon and Schuster

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1476765464

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9781476765464

Transparent Governance in an Age of Abundance

Experiences from the Extractive Industries in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Juan Cruz Vieyra,Malaika Masson,Martin Walter,Juan Carlos Quiroz,Michael Ross,Heather A. Lowe,Rhea Brathwaite,María José Jarquín,Jordan Kyle,Tira Greene,Mark Regis,Diego Arisi,Martín Ardanaz,Lenin Balza,Ramón Espinasa,Raul Alberto Jimenez Mori,Pablo Valverde Martínez

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Transparent Governance in an Age of Abundance

Experiences from the Extractive Industries in Latin America and the Caribbean

During the last decade, the Latin American and Caribbean region has experienced unprecedented natural resources abundance. This book highlights how transparency can help realize the benefits and reduce negative externalities associated with the extractive industries in the region. A central message is that high-quality and well-managed information is critical to ensure the transparent and effective governance of the sector. The insights from experiences in the region can help policymakers design and implement effective regulatory reforms and adopt international standards that contribute to this goal. This is particularly important at a time when the recent boom experienced by extractives in the region may be coming to an end.

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Inter-American Development Bank

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159782187X

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9781597821872

Publicidad 360º

By: Alejandro Álvarez Nobell,Asunción Beerli Palacio,Javier Calvo Anoro,Fernando Carcavilla Puey,Raúl De Diego Vallejo,Carlos Fanjul Peyró,Eduard Farrán Teixido,Rosana Fuentes Fernández,Javier García López,Manuel Garrido Lora,Pablo González-Posada Vaticón,María Begoña Gómez Nieto,José María Herranz de la Casa,M. C. Jiménez,Patricia Lafuente Pérez,Javier Lasheras San Martín,Javier Lozano Delmar,Josefa Delia Martín Santana,Mónica Matellanes Lazo,José Antonio Muñiz Velázquez,Inés Olza Moreno,Víctor Manuel Pérez-Martínez,Antonio Prieto Andrés,Marina Ramos Serrano,María Romero Calmache,María Victoria Romero Gualda,César San Nicolás Romera,Fernando Suárez Carballo,Alejandro Tapia Frade,José Jesús Vargas Delgado,Manuel Viñas Limonchi

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Publicidad 360º

Esta publicación es fruto de la reflexión de, fundamentalmente, docentes del ámbito de la comunicación y de la publicidad basada en la necesidad de aunar fuerzas para ofrecer una obra de conjunto que intenta ver la publicidad como un hecho global y no solo aislado de la comunicación comercial. La presente obra profundiza en el valor de la publicidad y su importancia contemporánea, desde una perspectiva holística y con el objetivo de querer ser una publicación didáctica y de reflexión.

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Ediciones Universidad San Jorge

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8494119818

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9788494119811

Fiscal Rules and Economic Size in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Fernando Blanco,Pablo Saavedra,Friederike Koehler-Geib,Emilia Skrok

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Fiscal Rules and Economic Size in Latin America and the Caribbean

By: Fernando Blanco,Pablo Saavedra,Friederike Koehler-Geib,Emilia Skrok

Following the collapse of commodity prices in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2014-15, many countries in the region were unable to cushion the impact of the shock in order to experience a more gradual adjustment, to a large extent because they had not built adequate fiscal buffers during the commodities’ windfall from 2010-14. Many LAC countries entered 2020 and the COVID-19 crisis in an even more difficult position, with rising debt and limited fiscal space to smooth the negative impacts of the pandemic and adequately support their economies. Fiscal policy in most LAC countries has been procyclical. Public expenditure and debt levels have expanded in good times and contracted in severe downswings due to insufficient fiscal buffers, making crises deeper. Fiscal rules represent a promising policy option for these and other economies. If well-designed and implemented, they can help build buffers during periods of strong economic performance that will be available during rainy days to smooth economic shocks. This book—which was prepared before the COVID-19 crisis—reviews the performance and implementation of different fiscal rules in the region and world. It provides analytical and practical criteria for policy makers for the design, establishment, and feasible implementation of fiscal rules based on each country's business cycle features, external characteristics, type of shocks faced, initial fiscal conditions, technical and institutional capacities, and political context. While establishing new fiscal rules would not help to attenuate the immediate effects of this pandemic crisis, higher debt levels in the aftermath of COVID-19 will demand rebuilding better and stronger institutional frameworks of fiscal policy in LAC and emerging economies globally. Having stronger fiscal mechanisms that include fiscal rules can help countries prepare for the next crisis and should be on the front burner for policy makers in coming years. The findings and lessons discussed apply to economies of different sizes, with some differences under certain scenarios in terms of the technical design and criteria needed for implementation. In this book, policy makers will find that fiscal rules, if tailored to country characteristics, can work and be an essential fiscal tool for larger and particularly smaller economies.

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World Bank Publications

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146481581X

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Beyond Facts

Beyond Facts

Segmented Representation

Segmented Representation

Society of the Snow

Society of the Snow

Is the Public Investment Multiplier Higher in Developing Countries? An Empirical Exploration

Is the Public Investment Multiplier Higher in Developing Countries? An Empirical Exploration

I Had to Survive

I Had to Survive

Transparent Governance in an Age of Abundance

Transparent Governance in an Age of Abundance

Publicidad 360º

Publicidad 360º

Fiscal Rules and Economic Size in Latin America and the Caribbean

Fiscal Rules and Economic Size in Latin America and the Caribbean

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