Thesis (Ph. D.)--Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1990. / Typescript (photocopy). Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 246-267).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 356-365).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-101).

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In recent years, Latin America has taken a backseat in terms of American foreign policy. A region that is stereo typically considered unstable and violent has ceased to be important to the United States, its hemispherical neighbor and global superpower. This project sheds some light on the assumption that Latin America is wholly unstable, and recognizes the causes and effects of social, economic, historical, and political factors that play a role in whether or not a state is politically stable. The study focuses on three players from varying regions of Latin America: Costa Rica, Argentina, and Cuba. Costa Rica is often considered one of the oldest, most stable democracies in the region. Cuba and Argentina have both had dictatorships in the last century, and their economies have risen and fallen, or vice versa. This project identifies some major factors in stability in an area that is grouped together as a Hispanic culture, but has so much variety within it. The thesis sheds light on the role of conflict history, economic development, political structure, and individual leaders in defining each state's political stability. Costa Rica, Argentina, and Cuba possess varying degrees of each of these factors, and the findings provide evidence for their current status on the political spectrum.

Orientador: Plínio Soares de Arruda Sampaio Júnior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T05:12:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Henriques_TatianaFerreira_M.pdf: 3707431 bytes, checksum: 244a39a8027bfe6cef7e340dbc5c4ca0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: A presente dissertação tem como objetivo estudar o significado do ciclo recente (2003-2013) de expansão de preços das commodities primárias para a América Latina e Caribe, no que diz respeito à inserção comercial externa, tendo em vista os marcos teóricos do (sub)desenvolvimento. Para isso, de um lado, são resgatadas algumas das principais contribuições do pensamento crítico originário latino-americano, especialmente de Raúl Prebisch e Celso Furtado; e, de outro lado, são apontados elementos concretos para qualificar o debate teórico recente acerca da centralidade dos recursos naturais ao desenvolvimento da região: a visão atual da CEPAL sintetizada no paradigma do cambio estructural frente às críticas do reforço da dependência primário-exportadora e do subdesenvolvimento. As evidências empíricas foram obtidas a partir de dados de comércio (SIGCI - CEPAL e UN Comtrade) da região com o mundo e com os seus principais parceiros: Estados Unidos, União Europeia, Mercosul, Japão e, com destaque, a China. De forma generalizada, o que se notou nas economias latino-americanas foi um reforço da especialização exportadora em torno de (algumas poucas) commodities primárias e um rápido incremento da importação de manufaturados de maior intensidade tecnológica. E, especialmente no caso do comércio com a China, uma tendência à inserção externa fortemente concentrada e assimétrica, em valor e tipos de bens. Isto é, um quadro que impõe à América Latina uma posição cada vez mais subordinada na divisão internacional do trabalho e que tende a afastá-la ainda mais dos rumos da superação do subdesenvolvimento: ao invés do caminho ao cambio estructural, um aprofundamento do processo de reversão neocolonial em marcha / Abstract: The present dissertation aims to investigate the implications of the recent primary commodities¿ price expansion cycle (2003-2013) for Latin America and the Caribbean. This study set out to understand how this cycle affected the external trade insertion of the region given the theoretical framework of (under)development. In order to reach the results, in one hand, some of the main contributions to the critical debate in Latin America are recovered, especially Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado. In the other hand, concrete evidences are provided to support the theoretical debate on the centrality of natural resources for the regional development: ECLAC¿s current view synthetized within the "structural change" paradigm in contrast to criticism against the strengthening of the primary-export dependence and underdevelopment. Empirical evidences were obtained through foreign trade data analysis (SIGCI - ECLAC and UN Comtrade) of the region with its most important trade partners: United States of America, European Union, Mercosur, Japan and most notably China. The findings suggest that overall Latin-American economies enhanced their export specialization around (few) primary commodities in face to a rapid increase in the import levels of higher technology-intensive manufactured goods. Furthermore, especially regarding trade with China, there is a clear tendency to a highly concentrated and asymmetric external insertion in value and sorts of goods. This setting imposes an increasingly subordinated position to Latin America in the context of the international division of labor, and tends to push the region further away from overcoming its underdevelopment. Instead of directing towards the "structural change" there is a deepening of the neo colonial reversion under way / Mestrado / Teoria Economica / Mestra em Ciências Econômicas

(English) This work deals with dependency theory n conceptions of its two main exponents Andre Gunder Frank and Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Metodologically is it based on a basic hypothesis of sociology of knowledge that human thought (both everyday knowledge and abstract theories) is fundamentally determined by its social and historical context. It follows necessity combine a historical and sociological approach. At first, the work concentrates on historical and theoretical conditions of emergence of dependency theory (especially modernization theory, Marxism and structuralism). A core of the work is focused on writings of Frank and Cardoso, their intelectual trajectory, metodology of analysis, concept of dependency and its political implications. Hereupon follows a sketch of political influence of dependency theory in a form of Frank's activity as an advisor of Salvador Allende and particularly of Brasil at a time of Cardoso's presidency and a survey of a vast and wide-ranging critics of dependency theory. Final part of the work is comprised by a sketch of contemporary position of dependency theory, its influence and actual relevance.

Title from PDF of title page. / Document formatted into pages; contains 83 pages / Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Florida, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. / Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. / ABSTRACT: Issues related to women, environment and development constitute a major global concern today. Women's roles as agents of change in the environment has increasingly become the focus of both research and policy concerns. Environmental resource management is directly linked to development, and this makes it crucial to examine the activities of women more closely. Women's role in the management of natural resources assumes a multidimensional nature. Unfortunately, the central and crucial role that women play is often both overlooked and unappreciated, rendering them invisible and greatly diminishing their contribution as both producers and active agents in sustainable development. One of the arguments central to this thesis is that rural women's connections to the physical world can inform feminist theory as well as broader policy frameworks. / Their knowledge and experiences can and should be fundamental in devising programs for sustainable development. Case studies are central to this thesis because they provide specific situations and issues and lend a concrete material reality to the topics under discussion. They point to the multidimensional and multifunctional nature of women's roles in natural resource management in addition to highlighting the diverse constraints that women face. Case studies help identify strategies that could be applied to facilitate sustainable development efforts by presenting us with tangible situations rather than dealing with the abstract. / Clearly, this thesis has not covered the entire scope of issues that need to be addressed in the women, environment and development debate. Nor are the suggested strategies for enhancing women&softsign;s role as environmental resource managers exhaustive. Nonetheless, it is my hope that this thesis serves as a beginning for what constitute some of the key issues when engaging with the women, environment and development debate. / System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Orientador: Wilson Suzigan / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T08:36:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paiva_SuzanaCristinaFernandesde_D.pdf: 10455470 bytes, checksum: 3beffcd5d809c01d9a3255f0c6fd1e05 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Esta tese estuda a trajetória intelectual de Fernando Fajnzylber com o propósito de recuperar, sistematizar e apresentar uma leitura critica das suas idéias e de seus ideais relacionados a uma estratégia de política industrial e desenvolvimento econômico para a América Latina. Fernando Fajnzylber foi um teórico do desenvolvimento latino-americano e o responsável pela construção do novo enfoque teórico da CEP AL para a década de 1990, que deu origem ao projeto cepalino de "transfonnação produtiva com eqüidade". O elo condutor de sua obra sempre foi a busca pela superação dos entraves ao desenvolvimento econômico e da perene exclusão social na América Latina, isto é, a construção de um modelo de desenvolvimento menos dependente e menos excludente, que conciliasse crescimento com equidade. Sua proposta apresentava-se como alternativa ao projeto neoliberal para a América Latina, contrapondo-se aos teóricos e líderes latino-americanos que aceitaram a inevitabilidade objetiva do neoliberalismo e aderiram intelectualmente ao "pensamento hegemônico". Desta forma, seu legado intelectual nos conduz a refletir não somente sobre crescimento econômico, incorporação de progresso técnico, eficiência nos investimentos, mas sobretudo, distribuição de renda e eqüidade, visto que a justiça social ainda está por ser feita na América Latina / Abstract: This thesis has the purpose of analysing Fernando Fajnzylber's intellectual path, as an attempt of retrieving, systematizing and presenting a critical reading of his ideas and ideals for Latin America's industrial policy and economic development. Fernando Fajnzylber was a Latin American economic development theorist and also the key author of a new approach to ECLAC's (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) theory for the 1990's, which evolved into the "productive transformation with equity" project. The thread of his work has always been the search of ways for surpassing the obstacles to Latin American development as much as its everlasting social exclusion, which means the building of a whole new economic model - a less dependant and less excluding one, combining economic growth and social equity. Ris economic mode! proposal has been presented as an alterna tive to the neoliberal project for Latin America, placing itself over against region's theorists and political leaders who faced neoliberalism as something inevitable, joining its "hegemonic economic thought". For this reason, his intellectuallegacy drives us to reflect not only on economic development, absorption of technical progress, investment efficiency, but above all on income distribution and equity, since socialjustice remains to be done in Latin America / Doutorado / Historia Economica / Doutor em Economia Aplicada