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La política de las empresas en Latinoamérica: investigando sus estructuras, preferencias e influencia
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2012-01)The article surveys the study of Latin American business politics, focusing on three main areas: The structure of business, the preferences of business, and its power in the political process. The structure of businesses ... -
Atravesando el océano pensando en los TBI: arbitraje inversionista-Estado en los tratados bilaterales de inversión chinos
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2012-07)Although China began to sign bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in the 1970s, it refused to grant foreign investors the right to sue their host government in international arbitration tribunals. Few realize that China’s ... -
Las relaciones económicas entre China y Brasil: ¿muy grandes para fracasar?
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2012-07)This article analyzes Brazil’s economic policy towards China in light of the major influx of Chinese imports and investment into Brazil in the 2000s. In particular, I explore the significance of domestic actors in the ... -
Tratados de libre comercio al estilo chino: los TLC Chile-China y Perú-China
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2012)Chinese-style FTAs in South America have proved to be unique in three respects: first, due to China’s continued classification as a non-market developing economy at the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Chile-China and ... -
Estados Unidos en Asia y China en América Latina. Los cambios del nuevo mapa hegemónico mundial
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2012-07)The objective of the article has two main goals. On one hand, we want to study US hegemony in the East Asia; how it proceeded there and challenges posed by other international powers. US hegemony in Asia was resolutely ... -
Entre el capitalismo dirigido y el Consenso de Washington. El Estado y las relaciones económicas de China con Brasil, Chile y México
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2012-07)Economic relations between China and Latin America differ according to two subregions. Regarding Mexico and Central America there is a meaningful competition, while South America is benefiting from the high demand of ... -
Variedades de primarización, recursos naturales y diferenciación: el desafío de Sudamérica en la relación con China
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2012-07)In the last decade, China has transformed in a strategic commercial partner for South America. China is the first or the second largest trade partner for the majority of the economies in the sub-region. However, the trade ... -
Las finanzas chinas en Latinoamérica: ¿un financiamiento más verde?
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2012-07)The enormous rise in Chinese financial lending to major infrastructure and heavy industry projects has raised concerns regarding the environment. Over the past twenty years, civil society has pushed for the inclusion of ... -
¿Qué significará el 12º Plan Quinquenal de China para las relaciones sino-latinoamericanas?
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2012-07)In March of 2011, China’s National People’s Congress approved the country’s 12th Five-Year Plan, an extensive guide for social and economic planning through the year 2015. Initiated in 1953, China’s five-year plans have ... -
Caracterizando la función de producción del capital humano: una perspectiva dinámica
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2013-01)This paper explores the generation process of human capital in a dynamic perspective. In order to do so: a) characterizes the recent evolution of human capital, using as proxy the same results panel of participating countries ... -
PISA 2009/2000 en América Latina: una relectura de los cambios en el desempeño lector y su relación con las condiciones sociales
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2013-01)This paper explores to what extent changes in performance of secondary education students between 2000 and 2009 for the Latin American countries participating in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment ... -
El tiempo de la familia es un recurso escaso: ¿cómo afecta su distribución en el desempeño escolar?
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2013-01)This paper measures the impact of time distribution of parents and children over the students’ age-grade retardation. The research uses the Time Use Survey applied in Peru in 2010 and cross-sectional econometric models. ... -
Paradojas y dilemas de la participación social en la educación básica en México
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2013-01)This article analyzes the promotion of social participation from the changes in educational policy due to the National Agreement for the Modernization of Basic Education, signed in 1992, focusing on social participation ... -
Capacitación docente, uso de materiales educativos y aprendizajes: los modelos de dotación de material educativo en el Perú
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2013-01)Educational materials (textbooks in particular) are key for improving learning, especially in precarious school contexts. In the case of Peru, from 1990 on, the State has experimented with different models of educational ... -
Aprendizajes de equipos universitarios en experiencias de colaboración con comunidades y organizaciones sociales realizadas con apoyo del Programa de Voluntariado Universitario de Argentina, 2008
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2013-01)This article discusses some learning achieved by university teams through their extra-curricular activities carried out in collaboration with communities and social organizations. The research studies fifty-eight diverse ... -
Mayor acceso con menor calidad en la educación superior: algunas evidencias desde las habilidades de los estudiantes
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2013-01)In the last decade, access to higher education in Peru has increased substantially. On the other hand, the proportion of children and adolescents with adequate knowledge to their grade, reflected in learning tests, remains ... -
Nuevo orden alimentario y disputa por el agua en el norte de México
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2013-07)Este artículo pretende tanto mostrar cómo los procesos de agricultura comercial y cambio climático están agotando los mantos acuíferos del estado de Chihuahua en el norte de México, como reconstruir los movimientos, demandas ... -
Cadenas de valor, comercio exterior y diversidad biológica
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2013-07)In Peru, the evidence shows the link between emerging markets and national value chains, articulated to the sustainable use of biodiversity. In this sense, the mega biodiversity and therefore the services provided by ... -
El caso de Shougang: comparando la minería china y occidental en el Perú
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2013-07)Observers have expressed concern that Chinese mining companies operating in Latin America are violating labor and environmental standards to a greater extent than other foreign mining companies. Critics point to one ... -
El camino hacia una economía verde: el caso de la infraestructura de turismo en áreas naturales protegidas
(Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación, 2013-07)This paper examines the definition of Green Economy and discusses the potential of the tourism sector to serve as a success case story to implement the principles of this development model. To attain this goal, we focus ...