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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]

The databases generated in the institutes and centers of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) are analyzed, where the scientific knowledge published in the countries of Latin America, Caribbean, Spanish and Portuguese journals on Humanities and Social Sciences is referred. Methodology. From the review of the web pages of the institutes that approach these disciplines, we identified some databases. We interview the persons in charge of the development of the databases to obtain information about the content, level of analysis, number of records, software, products and services. This paper describes, the characteristics, subject and geographic coverage, services and forms of access to these data bases. The databases analyzed are IRESIE, iberoamerican education database; CLASE (Latin American Citation Index in Social Sciences and Humanities) PERIODICA; (Index to Latin American Sciences Journals); FILOS (Mexican Philosophy); and INFOBILA (Latin American Library and Information Sciene); and LATINDEX (Regional system of online information for science journals of Latin America, Caribe, Spain and Portugal). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this article is to study food policies and their importance for social capital formation within the context of State reform in Mexico and Latin America. In order to achieve this goal we divide our paper in three parts. In the first part, we study state reform from a new theoretical perspective, analyzing new complex proposals and their relationships with decentralization and emerging actors. Secondly, we describe the phases that social food policy has undergone, as well as its effect on social organization. Finally, we study new food policies in Mexico and their probable perspectives for success from the point of view of establishing social capital which is an important part of the emerging theories on society and state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]