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2. SUSTAINABILITY POLICIES FOR CIRCULARITY IN LATIN AMERICA.
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RODRIGUEZ-SANCHEZ, PATRICIA, PLAZAS-GUERRERO, GABRIEL, and HERNANDEZ-GONZALEZ, MARIANA
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CIRCULAR economy , *SUSTAINABILITY , *GOVERNMENT policy , *RENEWABLE energy transition (Government policy) , *ECONOMICS education , *SUSTAINABLE consumption , *WASTE management - Abstract
This paper analyses public policies concerning sustainability in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico; and examines their contribution to the transformation of the productivity practices towards circular economy (CE). The findings allow for a distinction among three fields: renewable energy and energy transition, sustainable production and consumption, and waste management. This paper points out elements for formulation of public policies directed towards CE, such as the need for stability and normative clarity to handle actions from active participators; the creation of taxes and economic/financial incentives to industrial updating processes and making of profit out of externalities; the formation and training of human capital to align business' goals with sustainable practices; and both the education and sensitization of the population that drive policies dissemination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
3. Economic Growth and Pollution Nexus in Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela (G-3 Countries): The Role of Renewable Energy in Carbon Dioxide Emissions.
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Nahrin, Rifat, Rahman, Md. Hasanur, Majumder, Shapan Chandra, and Esquivias, Miguel Angel
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CARBON emissions , *RENEWABLE energy sources , *ECONOMIC expansion , *ENVIRONMENTAL quality , *POLLUTION , *GREENHOUSE gases - Abstract
The primary aspiration of this paper is to learn about the effects of economic growth (GDPG) and energy consumption (ENRC) on environmental pollution (EP) in G-3 countries and to show the significance of renewable energy consumption (RENEW) on environmental pollution (EP). The data covers the period from 1970 to 2020 by applying the "Pooled Mean Group-Autoregressive Distributed Lag" (PMG-ARDL) model. The results indicate that GDPG is negatively co-integrated with CO2 emissions (pollution) in the short run (SR) but positively co-integrated in the long run (LR). Energy consumption has a positive impact in the long run, but there is no positive impact in the short run to accelerate pollution. In both the short and long run, renewable energy has a significant role in reducing environmental degradation. However, according to the Dumitrescu Hurlin panel, there was bidirectional causality (BC) involving energy consumption and pollution. Because of the large volume of energy emphasized in economic growth and development activities, energy use increases pollution. In addition, there was a BC involving energy consumption and economic growth. At the country level, a significant contribution implies sustainable development and the implication of environmental quality assurance policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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4. Resource-Based Industries and CO 2 Emissions Embedded in Value Chains: A Regional Analysis for Selected Countries in Latin America.
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Sanguinet, Eduardo Rodrigues, Azzoni, Carlos Roberto, and Alvim, Augusto Mussi
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VALUE chains , *CARBON emissions , *EMISSIONS trading , *SUPPLY chains , *SUSTAINABLE development - Abstract
This paper analyzes the relative content of CO2 emissions embedded in regional supply chains in four different countries in Latin America: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. We estimate both the trade in value-added (TiVA) and the CO2 content embedded in interregional and foreign exports, mapping the relative intensity of CO2 emission levels on value chains. For that, we applied an inter-regional input-output model to determine the interplay between the CO2 emission embedded in goods of resource-based industries and their linkages with other economic industries, revealing a map of CO2 emissions on trade in value-added trade from a subnational dimension. The main result reveals an interregional dependence, indicating a higher level of embedded CO2 on value-added in each regional economy for resource-based industries, usually intense in CO2 emissions. This finding has considerable implications for the sustainable development goals of these subnational areas, as the spatial concentration of production leads to an unbalanced regional capacity for promoting reductions in CO2 emissions along with value chains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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5. One CGIAR and the Integrated Agri-food Systems Initiative: From short-termism to transformation of the world's food systems.
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Govaerts, Bram, Negra, Christine, Camacho Villa, Tania Carolina, Chavez Suarez, Xiomara, Espinosa, Anabell Diaz, Fonteyne, Simon, Gardeazabal, Andrea, Gonzalez, Gabriela, Gopal Singh, Ravi, Kommerell, Victor, Kropff, Wietske, Lopez Saavedra, Victor, Mena Lopez, Georgina, Odjo, Sylvanus, Palacios Rojas, Natalia, Ramirez-Villegas, Julian, Van Loon, Jelle, Vega, Daniela, Verhulst, Nele, and Woltering, Lennart
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POSITIVE systems , *VALUE chains , *DESIGN thinking , *INTERNATIONAL agencies , *GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
Agri-food systems are besieged by malnutrition, yield gaps, and climate vulnerability, but integrated, research-based responses in public policy, agricultural, value chains, and finance are constrained by short-termism and zero sum thinking. As they respond to current and emerging agri-food system challenges, decision makers need new tools that steer toward multi-sector, evidence-based collaboration. To support national agri-food system policy processes, the Integrated Agri-food System Initiative (IASI) methodology was developed and validated through case studies in Mexico and Colombia. This holistic, multi-sector methodology builds on diverse existing data resources and leverages situation analysis, modeled predictions, and scenarios to synchronize public and private action at the national level toward sustainable, equitable, and inclusive agri-food systems. Culminating in collectively agreed strategies and multi-partner tactical plans, the IASI methodology enabled a multi-level systems approach by mobilizing design thinking to foster mindset shifts and stakeholder consensus on sustainable and scalable innovations that respond to real-time dynamics in complex agri-food systems. To build capacity for these types of integrated, context-specific approaches, greater investment is needed in supportive international institutions that function as trusted in-region 'innovation brokers.' This paper calls for a structured global network to advance adaptation and evolution of essential tools like the IASI methodology in support of the One CGIAR mandate and in service of positive agri-food systems transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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6. Are FX communications effective? Evidence from emerging markets.
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Parra-Polanía, Julián, Sánchez-Jabba, Andrés, and Sarmiento, Miguel
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FOREIGN exchange rates , *FOREIGN exchange , *EMERGING markets , *CURRENCY exchanges (Domestic) , *FOREIGN exchange market , *COMMUNICATION in marketing - Abstract
This paper examines the effects of foreign exchange (FX) communications on FX markets in Colombia and Mexico. Our estimations follow the calendar-time portfolio approach using daily data between 2000 and 2019 on exchange rates and known risk factors. We find an asymmetric effect of such communications: while there is strong evidence indicating that communications aimed at weakening the local currency affect the exchange rate level in the intended direction, there is no evidence of impact when examining communications intended to strengthen it. These results are consistent with fear of appreciation and with previous evidence from developed economies. • Monetary authorities use foreign exchange communications (FXC) to influence the exchange rate. • FXC in Colombia and Mexico are evaluated during the 2001-2019 period. • The calendar-time portfolio approach is used to evaluate FXC in both countries. • FXC aimed at weakening the domestic currency affect the exchange rate, while those intended to strength it have no impact. • Results are consistent with fear of appreciation and previous evidence from advanced economies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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7. Economic policy uncertainty and presidential approval: Evidence from Latin America.
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Gómez-Méndez, Myriam and Hansen, Erwin
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ECONOMIC policy , *UNCERTAINTY - Abstract
This paper analyzes the extent to which economic policy uncertainty affects presidential approval in four Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico). Using panel (time-series cross-sectional) estimation methods, we show that economic policy uncertainty has a negative impact on presidential approval in our sample. A one-standard-deviation increase in the level of economic uncertainty reduces presidential approval by approximately 12 percent. Our results are consistent with the political economy model of Alesina et al. (1993), which shows that voters are less likely to re-elect the incumbent when faced with uncertainty about economic policy. Incumbent competence signalling can exarcerbate this effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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8. The political economy of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation in Latin America: lessons from Mexico, Chile and Colombia.
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Carriedo, Angela, Koon, Adam D., Encarnación, Luis Manuel, Lee, Kelley, Smith, Richard, and Walls, Helen
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TAXATION , *ECONOMIC systems , *INTERNATIONAL business enterprises , *CIVIL society , *POWER (Social sciences) - Abstract
Background: In Latin America, total sales of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) continue to rise at an alarming rate. Consumption of added sugar is a leading cause of diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Coalitions of stakeholders have formed in several countries in the region to address this public health challenge including participation of civil society organizations and transnational corporations. Little is currently known about these coalitions - what interests they represent, what goals they pursue and how they operate. Ensuring the primacy of public health goals is a particular governance challenge. This paper comparatively analyses governance challenges involved in the adoption of taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages in Mexico, Chile and Colombia. The three countries have similar political and economic systems, institutional arrangements and regulatory instruments but differing policy outcomes.Methods: We analysed the political economy of SSB taxation based on a qualitative synthesis of existing empirical evidence. We identify the key stakeholders involved in the policy process, identified their interests, and assess how they influenced adoption and implementation of the tax.Results: Coalitions for and against the SSB taxation formed the basis of policy debates in all three countries. Intergovernmental support was critical to framing the SSB tax aims, benefits and implementation; and for countries to adopt it. A major constraint to implementation was the strong influence of transnational corporations (TNCs) in the policy process. A lack of transparency during agenda setting was notably enhanced by the powerful presence of TNCs.Conclusion: NCDs prevention policies need to be supported across government, alongside grassroots organizations, policy champions and civil society groups to enhance their success. However, governance arrangements involving coalitions between public and private sector actors need to recognize power asymmetries among different actors and mitigate their potentially negative consequences. Such arrangements should include clear mechanisms to ensure transparency and accountability of all partners, and prevent undue influence by industry interests associated with unhealthy products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2021
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9. Spillover effects of the US economic policy uncertainty in Latin America.
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CORONADO, SEMEI, MARTINEZ, JOSÉ N., and VENEGAS-MARTÍNEZ, FRANCISCO
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ECONOMIC policy , *CONSUMER price indexes , *GRANGER causality test , *GLOBAL Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 , *DEPRECIATION , *INTEREST rates , *FOREIGN exchange rates - Abstract
This paper is aimed at assessing the spillover effects of the US Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) in macroeconomic variables of major Latin American Countries (LAC): Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and Chile. To do that, we estimate a set of two-country Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) models for 1997-2019; each model includes the US and one of the LAC. We use the following variables: EPU indexes, exchange rates, consumer price indexes, industrial production (IP), and interest rates (IR) of the US and the studied LAC. The main finding is that positive shocks in the US EPU index lead to currency depreciation for all four LAC; the largest effect is for Mexico. Other statistically significant results are a brief and small positive impact on Colombia's IP and a positive impact on Mexico's IR. The remaining LAC's estimates are statistically insignificant. For this reason, we applied Rossi and Wang's (2019) robust Granger causality tests that considers structural breaks. Finally, the estimates before and after the 2008 financial crisis suggest that LAC became slightly more responsive to US EPU shocks after the crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
10. Political legitimacy in Mexico and police in high-conflict areas.
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Aguirre Ochoa, Jerjes and Leco Tomas, Casimiro
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POLICE legitimacy , *LEGITIMACY of governments , *POLITICAL participation , *ORGANIZATIONAL legitimacy , *MILITARY reserve forces , *SUBNATIONAL governments - Abstract
This paper analyzes the importance of political legitimacy in police actions in Mexico, especially in regions where criminal cartels build strategies that seek to justify their criminal activities through social and political actions that give them the legitimacy that the police lack on local and sub-national governments. The article observes aspects of legitimacy of the National Police of Colombia that can be applied to the Mexican case, specifically to the recently created Mexican National Guard. The analysis focuses on the municipalities of the so-called Tierra Caliente, Michoacana that exemplify the problems of political legitimacy and the difficulties that this implies for police activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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11. Stability and change in public health studies in Colombia and Mexico: an exploratory approach based on co-word analysis.
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Vílchez-Román, Carlos and Quiliano-Terreros, Rocío
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PUBLIC health , *STATISTICAL correlation - Abstract
Objective. To determine the level of stability or change in topic areas published by public health journals in Latin America and the Caribbean, using keywords and co-word analysis, in order to support evidence-based research planning. Methods. Keywords were extracted from papers indexed in Scopus® that were published by the Revista de Salud Pública (RSP; Colombia), the Salud Pública de México (SPM; Mexico), and the Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública (RPMESP; Peru) for three periods: 2005 - 2007, 2008 - 2010, and 2011 - 2013. Co-word analysis was used to examine keywords extracted. Textual information was analyzed using centrality measures (inbetweenness and closeness). The hypothesis of stability/change of thematic coverage was tested using the Spearman's rho correlation coefficient. VOSviewer was used to visualize the co-word maps. Results. A moderate level of change in thematic coverage was observed in 2005 -- 2010, as evidenced by the correlation coefficients for two of the 3-year periods, 2005 -- 2007 and 2008 -- 2010: 0.545 for RSP and 0.593 for SPM. However, in 2008 -- 2013, more keywords remained constant from one period to the next, given the size of the correlation coefficients for the last 3-year periods: 2008 -- 2010 and 2011 -- 2013: 0.727 for RSP and 0.605 for SPM. Conclusion. The research hypothesis was partially accepted given that just two consecutive 3-year periods showed a statistically-significant degree of stability in thematic coverage in public health studies. In that sense, this study provides compelling evidence of the effectiveness of using a combined approach for examining the dynamics of thematic coverage: centrality measures for identifying the main keywords and visual inspection for detecting the structure of textual information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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