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the middle class consensus and economic development
Get PDFModern political economy stresses"society's polarization"as a determinant of development outcomes. Among the most common dorms of social conflict are class polarization, and ethnic polarization. A middle class consensus is defined as a high share of income for the middle class and a low degree of ethnic polarization. A middle class consensus distinguishes development successes from failures. A theoretical model shows how groups - distinguished by class or ethnicity - will under-invest in human capital and infrastructure when there is"leakage"to another group. The author links the existence of a middle class consensus to exogenous country characteristics, such as resource endowments, along the lines of the provocative thesis of Engerman and Sokoloff (1997), that tropical commodity exporters are more unequal than other societies. The author confirms this hypothesis with cross-country data. This makes it possible to use resource endowments as instruments for inequality. A higher share of income for the middle class and lower ethnic polarization, are empirically associated with higher income, higher growth, more education, better health, better infrastructure, better economic policies, less political instability, less civil war (putting ethnic minorities at risk), more social"modernization,"and more democracy.Economic Theory&Research,Decentralization,Gender and Social Development,Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Policies,Achieving Shared Growth,Governance Indicators,Economic Development,Inequality,Economic Theory&Research
Remittance behavior among new U.S. immigrants
Get PDFI analyze remittance behavior among new legal immigrants in the US using a nationally representative survey of immigrants admitted to legal permanent residency in 2003. I find that the distribution of remittances is skewed to the right, with a small number of immigrants sending very large amounts. I find evidence against the pure altruism model and find that remittances may be used for investments in the home country. Using longitudinal data from the NIS, I construct a measure of permanent income and estimate remittance-income elasticities. I find that large country differentials in remittance behavior are only partially explained by observable characteristics of the donor, recipient and origin country. Future work will incorporate later waves of the 2003 NIS in order to observe return migration (and its relationship to remittance and home country investment decisions) and life cycle income-remittance movements.Immigrants ; Remittances
Placing transnational migration: The circulation of Indian South African narratives of identity and belonging
Get PDFTraditional nation-based models of citizenship that link belonging to territorial, political, social and cultural membership have been questioned by the transnational
approach to migration. However, transnationalism abstracts migrants' experiences outside of the historical-material circumstances of their production and organizes
groups into bound categories without engaging in questions of difference and diversity. Although more recent work has attempted to address these concerns through a focus on the governance of migration, 'transnational space' is deployed
uncritically without questioning how migration is a contested enterprise grounded in places imbued with territories of meaning. The raised connectivities of globalisation compel us to think more critically about the interactions between migration and places as historicized outcomes of difference and an ongoing record of muldscalar
and intersecting social processes. By taking the "places" of transnational fields seriously as a Lefebvrian synthetic third term that is neither wholly political-economic
nor fully personal,I draw attention to the syntheses of difference in the personal, political, historical and material conditions of existence,all of which are underpinned by the inseparable circulation of symbols,
materiality and policies. The case of Indians
in South Africa challenges us to reconsider our conceptualizations of transnational identities and communities. The economic, demographic and cultural make-up of the Indian population in Durban and their embeddedness in the history of South Africa provides rich material for the study of the overlapping spheres of personal and
political transnational life. My examination of the transnational practices of Indo-South Africans in the context of South Africa has opened up transnationalism in
three ways. First, I provide a critical reading of identity by juxtaposing the production and circulation of the signs
of an authentic Indo-South African transnational identity
through 'cultural brokers' with accounts of the material practices of transnationalism. Second, I show how the transnational identities of Indo-South Africans are defined
not only against India, but are made relevant to a South African national citizenship that is located both in 'national' space and in other fractured regional and
international spaces of development. Finally, I explore the uneven geographies that accompany India's recent dual citizenship provisions to show how transnational
governance by states is contingent upon place. By unpacking the multiplicity and contingencies within transnational. places, I investigate the fragmentations and
contestations of transnational identity and belonging
Analysis of articulation between Neural therapy and Primary Healthcare in Alternative Health Center "La Nueva Esperanza" in Popayán, Cauca from 1987 to 2005. Case Study
No full textilustraciones, diagramas, fotografíasMediante un estudio de caso, se realizó la descripción y análisis de una experiencia de prestación de servicios básicos de salud, en Popayán Colombia, desarrollada en un periodo pos terremoto entre 1987 y 2009, en el llamado Centro de Salud Nueva Esperanza, siendo el primer centro de atención primaria en salud pública en Colombia con Terapia Neural y trabajo comunitario, administrado por mujeres lideresas comunitarias. Empleó un modelo metodológico de Investigación Acción Participante - IAP, impulsado por la organización no gubernamental denominada Fundación para la Comunicación Popular -FUNCOP, que perduró varios años en interacción con el sistema público de atención en salud. (Texto tomado de la fuente).Through a case study, a description and analysis of an experience of providing basic health services was carried out in Popayán Colombia, developed in a post-earthquake period between 1987 and 2009, in the so-called Nueva Esperanza Health Center, being the first primary health care center in Colombia with Neural Therapy and community work, administered by women community leaders. He used a methodological model of Participatory Action Research - IAP, promoted by the non-governmental organization Fundación para la Comunicación Popular -FUNCOP, which lasted several years in interaction with the public health care system.MaestríaMagíster en Medicina AlternativaCorrespondió a una investigación cualitativa de tipo descriptivo, tipo Estudio de Caso, con la revisión crítica de fuentes primarias y secundarias, una Línea de Tiempo, entrevistas semiestructuradas y grupo focal. El análisis incluyó la Medicina Neuralterapéutica, desde su concepción de la salud y la enfermedad, su visión social y sus estrategias para interactuar en la salud pública, la Atención Primaria en Salud, la participación comunitaria, la Promoción y Prevención, la atención asistencial y los determinantes sociales de la salud y la enfermeda
