Microconflictos ambientales y crisis de gobernabilidad en la Amazonía ecuatoriana por Fontaine, Guillaume

“…The central idea is that conflict management by the state-owned oil company, Petroecuador, can lead to “efficient” negotiations in the short term, at the cost of a longterm perspective, that seeks the institutionalization of agreements and an effective treatment of the structural causes of environmental conflicts. …”
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Latin America and the Dragon: The Risks of an Economic-Commercial Relationship por Nacht, Pablo Alejandro

“…This study concludes that although some countries have seized the emerging power of China to secure a certain degree of autonomy before the United States and Europe, the costs for Latin America and the Caribbean are high, especially if the Beijing Consensus ensues.…”
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The Transformation of Housing Policy. The System of Incentives for Housing in the Construction of Quasi-Markets in Ecuador por Córdova, Marco Antonio

“…Methodologically the study analyzes the conditions underpinning the functioning of quasi-markets in housing (market structure, information, transaction of costs, motivation and adverse selection), as well as of the evalution criteria of the model (efficiency, sensibility, choice and equity). …”
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Labour standards and non-state initiatives in Colombia’s and Ecuador’s flower industries por Korovkin, Tanya, Sanmiguel-Valderrama, Olga

“…The recent wave of global economic expansion was triggered to a large extent by the relocation of labourintensive industries to developing countries with low labour costs. While there is no doubt that this relocation has created employment, most of it is in low quality jobs. …”
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