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This paper analyzes debt securitization in underdeveloped countries, using the case of Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil. We argue that the three countries have had a significant increase in the issuance of debt securities. However, the nature of the securities issued is different in each nation. In the case of Argentina, the increase in international debt securities in circulation has to do with the issuance of government securities. In Mexico, the increase is more related to the new financing needs of Mexican non-financial corporations. While in Brazil, the increase in the issuance of debt securities is due to a combination of both factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy coordination and fiscal multipliers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. To do so, we first look at the theoretical framework of the New Consensus Macroeconomics (NCM), and then analyze the trends in the four countries for variables including consumption, investment, government spending, and interest rates. Finally, we present an estimate of the spending and monetary multipliers with proxy variables. The contribution of this paper consists of one, showing the inexistence of the crowding out effect, and two, quantifying the multipliers for the aforementioned countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the problem of the professionalization of the military forces of the River Plate state in the first half of the 19th century, analyzing the attempts to establish a particular type of discipline and bureaucratic procedures in combat units that had emerged from a very intense popular mobilization. This problem is studied in two times. The regulations governing the administration of the armies and the kind of administrative tasks that were demanded from each officer will first be analyzed. Then this ideal administrative model imported from Europe will be confronted with the realities of its application, through the study of a particular case: the traumatic attempt to transform the Freedom Dragoons -a unit born from the Banda Oriental rural uprising of 1825- into a Line Cavalry Regiment within the Republican Army which was about to open the war against the Brazil. This modest episode, explored through the memoirs of the officer in charge of the reform, will enable us to shed light on the specific constraints encountered by those officials who spoke on behalf of the State and intended to discipline the forces of a people in arms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the archaeological record of the lower basin of the Paraná river, Myocastor coypus has been always present. For this reason in this paper we analyze the recurrence of this prey characterized as living in river ecosystems, and, because of its ease of hunting and the possibility of multiple uses of its fur, we estimate that this species was a resource highly exploited by hunter-gatherers in the past. Quantitative (NISP and MNI) and qualitative (modification of the bone surface) analyses of the recovered samples have been done in order to determine how M. coypus might have been exploited in the past. In order to evaluate the variability of the record, we compare samples from different sites in order to establish the similarities and/or differences among them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the relationship between the performance of Latin American stock markets with their real economies, applying seven econometric models for the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. The relationship between stock market yields in these countries and their respective GDPS is examined and compared, applying to the series for each country unit root tests, cointegration analysis, error correction model analysis, Granger causality modeling, self-regression vector analysis, stimulus and response functions, and variance decomposition analysis. The series comprise the following stock markets: Argentina's MERVAL, Brazil's BOVESPA, Chile's IGPA, and Mexico's IPC, as compiled by Economática. The GDP series were obtained from the Cepalstat data base. The series are monthly and are for the period 1993-2005. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the progress achieved during a brief stay within the framework of a postdoctoral research that the author conducted in 2009 with the aim of acknowledging the conditions under which the "hospice" movement emerges in Argentina and Brazil, and assess to what extent this has enabled innovation in the treatment of disease. We consider that 'palliative care' is a polysemic concept, which results from a process of "refocusing" of caring, through which new meanings appear from contributions of doctors, philosophers, theologians, psychotherapists, nurses, social workers, caregivers, pastors, religious and social activists, etc., in both theoretical and practical aspects and in its complex links with religion, morality and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]