The millennium development goals: strategic implications for the Latin American and Caribbean statistical systems

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The Mexican film industry and its participation in the global value chain

Includes bibliography

Macroeconomic challenges of fiscal decentralization in Latin America in the aftermath of the global financial crisis

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Savings in Latin America after the mid 1990s: determinants, constraints and policies

Includes bibliography

Economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: growth transitions rather than steady states

Includes bibliography

International asymmetries and the design of the International Financial System

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A new species of miniaturized toadlet, genus Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae), from the atlantic forest of southeastern Brazil

A new species of miniaturized froglet (genus Brachycephalus) is described from Morro Prumirim in the municipality of Ubatuba, São Paulo, southeastern Brazil. Specimens were collected from the leaf litter at approximately 800 m above sea level. The new species is distinguished from all its congeners by the combination of the following characters: snout-vent length 8.7-13.4 mm; skin on head and dorsum with dermal ossification; general color orange, with a narrow brownish vertebral stripe and belly without spots; and skull, spinal processes of sacral and pre-sacral vertebrae, and process of the fourth vertebra hyperossified. Canonical variates analysis of linear body measurement demonstrates that the new species is easily discriminated from other Brachycephalus species with which it shares an intermediate condition of hyperossification. © 2012 by The Herpetologists League, Inc.

National private groups in Mexico, 1987-1993

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The political economy of protection after the Uruguay Round

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Pension system reforms, the capital market and saving

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The in-bond assembly industry and technical change

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The transformation of collective action in Latin America

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The relations between different levels of government in Argentina

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The political economy of regional grants in Peru

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A new snake of the genus Helicops Wagler, 1830 (Dipsadidae, Xenodontinae) from Brazil

We describe a new species of Helicops from the southern Amazon Basin in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. It differs from all congeners by having dorsal scales in 21/21/19 rows in males and 23/21/19 rows in females, subcaudal keels, a banded dorsal color pattern, and 14-19 ventral blotches. Besides presenting information on the lepidosis and morphometric variation, we also describe the hemipenis and discuss the known distribution of the new species. © 2013 by The Herpetologists' League, Inc.