The objective of this paper is to explore the effects of globalization on the labour market and social stratification. It is generally held that globalization will bring about progress for nations and people. This, however, is far from clear, since the experience of almost two decades has been raising increasing doubts about the potential net gains and, particularly, the distribution of such gains. Clearly, there are winners and losers among both countries and people. We will concentrate on the effects upon people within countries and refer only to one region: Latin America. Our aim is to iden…
This article seeks to set forth the grounds for an approach integrating political governance, economic competitiveness and social integration as interdependent variables. To this end, it looks at the possibilities for Latin American society to simultaneously increase its capacity for democratic self-government, improve its economic competitiveness and tackle the main problems of social exclusion and poverty, since if this is not done the region will find it more difficult to take its place in the concert of modern democratic nations. In order to analyse the evolution of those variables from a …
En este artículo se busca fundamentar un enfoque que integre la gobernabilidad política, la competitividad económica y la integración social como variables interdependientes. Para ello se examinan las posibilidades de que la sociedad latinoamericana logre a la vez acrecentar su capacidad de autogobierno democrático, mejorar su competitividad económica y enfrentar los principales problemas de exclusión social y pobreza, ya que de no hacerlo la región tendrá más dificultad para estar presente en el concierto de naciones democráticas y modernas. Para analizar la evolución de tales variables con u…
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