Chile enfrenta actualmente un escenario en el cual el tema indígena cobra especial relevancia, tanto por la creciente visibilidad y movilización de los propios movimientos indígenas, como por la presencia e institucionalidad que estos actores adquieren en la política y el espacio públicos. En esta nueva inflexión histórica, el tema se presenta con toda la carga legendaria de exclusión de la población indígena y de su negación ciudadana. Este hecho fuerza a centrar el debate y la acción a en un doble registro, a saber, el de la superación de las inequidades y el reconocimiento efectivo de la pa…
Foreword The 1990s were unquestionably a time of transition and reorientation in several aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean's economic, social and political development. As in any period with these characteristics, the effects of long-standing processes mingled and interacted with incipient change. When the decade ended, ECLAC wished to contribute to the evaluation of the main events that marked the consolidation of reform in the region, recognizing of course that the speed of progress varied from country to country and from sector to sector. This publication offers an analysis of…
The Andean countries, a region with abundance of natural resources and other valuable assets, exhibit a variety of governance problems that hinder its potential for social peace, stability and economic prosperity. Their empirical governance record, based on historical and recent data, although varies from country to country has been characterized by political instability, considerable frequency of constitutional reforms, presidential crisis, volatility of democratic institutions and violence. In turn, the empirical evidence on quality of institutions put the Andean region in a relatively modes…
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