Policy response to poverty and inequality in the developing world

Includes bibliography

Is there room for local development in a globalized world?

Includes bibliography

Raúl Prebisch and the dilemma of development in the globalised world

Includes bibliography

Reinventing development: utopias devised by committees and seeds of change in the real world

Includes bibliography

Meeting on a new Latin America in a changing world economy

Reunión organizada en forma conjunta por la CEPAL y el Programa Latinoamericano del Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Exports in the new world environment: the case of Latin America

Includes bibliography

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world

Defaunation, the loss or population decline of medium and large native vertebrates represents a significant threat to the biodiversity of tropical ecosystems. Here we review the anthropogenic drivers of defaunation, provide a brief historical account of the development of this field, and analyze the types of biological consequences of this impact on the structure and functioning of tropical ecosystems. We identify how defaunation, operating at a variety of scales, from the plot to the global level, affects biological systems along a gradient of processes ranging from plant physiology (vegetative and reproductive performance) and animal behavior (movement, foraging and dietary patterns) in the immediate term; to plant population and community dynamics and structure leading to disruptions of ecosystem functioning (and thus degrading environmental services) in the short to medium term; to evolutionary changes (phenotypic changes and population genetic structure) in the long-term. We present such a synthesis as a preamble to a series of papers that provide a compilation of our current understanding of the impact and consequences of tropical defaunation. We close by identifying some of the most urgent needs and perspectives that warrant further study to improve our understanding of this field, as we confront the challenges of living in a defaunated world. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

Developing countries' anti-cyclical policies in a globalized world

Includes bibliography

Infant and child mortality in the Third World: background information and proposals for cooperative studies among demographic centers

Includes bibliography

Is it too early to study the elderly in the Third World?

Includes bibliography

Bureaucracy and ecopolitics in the Third World: environmental policy formation in Brazil = Burocracia y ecopolítica en el Tercer Mundo: formación de políticas relativas al medio ambiente en el Brasil

Incluye Bibliografía