This study focuses on the relationship among official development assistance (ODA), social capital and economic growth in Latin American countries, attempting to determine whether the impact of such assistance on growth is conditional on the receiving country’s stock of social capital. To this end, we use “trust” to measure social capital in an unbalanced panel of 18 Latin American countries over the period 2001-2010. After accounting for country and time effects in a dynamic panel data model, our results show that the impact of ODA on growth is indeed conditional on the level of trust that ex…
En este trabajo se examina la relación entre la asistencia oficial para el desarrollo (AOD),
el capital social y el crecimiento económico en América Latina, con miras a determinar
si el efecto de dicha asistencia en el crecimiento depende de las reservas de capital
social del país receptor. Con ese objetivo se utiliza la “confianza” para medir el capital
social en un panel incompleto de 18 países latinoamericanos en el período 2001-2010.
Después de explicar los efectos relativos al país y al tiempo en un modelo de datos de
panel dinámico, los resultados permiten ver que el efecto de la AOD en …
Tertiarization, or the shift to service economies with an increasing prevalence of non-manual occupations, has been identified as a central phenomenon in contemporary societies. With the purported numerical and political decline of traditional working-class sectors, the middle class has come to be seen in recent decades as the dominant one. This understanding of the way society has evolved has gone along with a growing interest in forms of social differentiation other than the occupational one of industrial societies, including cultural differentiation. This paper briefly reconstructs the deba…
La terciarización, o transición hacia economías de servicios con un creciente protagonismo de las ocupaciones no manuales, ha sido destacada como un fenómeno central de las sociedades contemporáneas. Frente al supuesto hundimiento numérico y político de los sectores obreros tradicionales, la clase media ha aparecido como la clase social protagónica de las últimas décadas. Vinculada a esta comprensión de la evolución de la sociedad, se ha manifestado un creciente interés por formas de diferenciación social distintas a la ocupacional de las sociedades industriales, entre ellas la cultural. En es…
Small rural communities in the Aysén Region of Chile evince a variety of forms and types of social capital. The predominant form of social capital has evolved in accordance with changes in the national context and the gradual integration through communications. Having been an example of community cooperation, rural communities were faced with the challenge of relating to more powerful social actors on the broader stage of the region’s civil society. This change often resulted in autonomy declining and community factions being caught up in chains of clientelism. In 2012, however, the “Your prob…
Las pequeñas comunidades rurales de la Región de Aysén, Chile, evidencian una variedad
de formas y tipos de capital social. La forma específica de capital social que predomina
ha evolucionado según cambios en el contexto nacional y la progresiva integración
comunicacional. Tras haber sido ejemplo de cooperación comunitaria, las comunidades
rurales enfrentaron el desafío de relacionarse con actores sociales de mayor poder, en
el escenario ampliado de la sociedad civil regional. En muchos casos, este cambio
conllevó una menor autonomía y la captura de facciones comunitarias en cadenas de
cliente…
This book offers a portrayal of the opportunities for social inclusion afforded to young people in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a view to building stronger youth policies in the region. The youth population must be included in development processes if progress is to be made towards more egalitarian societies, not only because of the numbers of young people vis-à-vis the rest of the population, but also because of what these numbers mean in relation to dependency rates and the needs and issues particular to this stage of life.…
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