scholarly journals The contribution of telco data to fight the COVID-19 pandemic: Experience of Telefonica throughout its footprint

Data & Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro A. de Alarcon ◽  
Alejandro Salevsky ◽  
Daniel Gheti-Kao ◽  
Willian Rosalen ◽  
Marby C. Duarte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Global Challenge

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is a global challenge for humanity, in which a large number of resources are invested to develop effective vaccines and treatments. At the same time, governments try to manage the spread of the disease while alleviating the strong impact derived from the slowdown in economic activity. Governments were forced to impose strict lockdown measures to tackle the pandemic. This significantly changed people’s mobility and habits, subsequently impacting the economy. In this context, the availability of tools to effectively monitor and quantify mobility was key for public institutions to decide which policies to implement and for how long. Telefonica has promoted different initiatives to offer governments mobility insights throughout many of the countries where it operates in Europe and Latin America. Mobility indicators with high spatial granularity and frequency of updates were successfully deployed in different formats. However, Telefonica faced many challenges (not only technical) to put these tools into service in a short timing: from reducing latency in insights to ensuring the security and privacy of information. In this article, we provide details on how Telefonica engaged with governments and other stakeholders in different countries as a response to the pandemic. We also cover the challenges faced and the shared learnings from Telefonica’s experience in those countries.

scholarly journals New Dynamics in Latin America

2015 ◽  
pp. 20-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Joaquin Brunner
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Social Revolution

The dramatic massification of Latin America's higher education is leading to a social revolution with new demands on government for greater and more effective regulation. However the sector's market development, based on private as much as public institutions and funding, cannot be easily organized. Facing increasing political demands, governments and stakeholders will have to ensure-through innovative instruments and policies-greater quality, employability while adapting funding and curricula to massification, in order to meet the aspirations of Latin America's present and future youth.

scholarly journals Innovation in Latin America through the lens of bibliometrics: Crammed and fading away

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julián David Cortés-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
H Index ◽  
The Past ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
Regional Gap ◽  
The Individual

Research in the field of innovation in business, management, and accounting (BMA) in Latin America (LATAM) has surpassed all expectations of its net output. Yet this digital tide suggests several concerns regarding its impact and both its established and emergent research topics at the individual, institutional, and country level. In this paper, an outlook of the field was developed based on a sample of +1,300 documents indexed in Scopus from 1983 to 2018. Public institutions in Brazil and Colombia have been both the most cited and productive in the region. Nevertheless, documents lead by non-LATAM authors showed significant differences in both paper citations and journals’ h-index compared to leading authors from LATAM. Three of the major concerns raised were, first, a growing inter-regional gap among LATAM countries. Second, the intensive use of a journal with predatory features over the last five years, therefore cites/document measure is at the lowest point of the past 17 years. And third, the delay of recently emergent topics in the region that have been in the literature for more than a decade, while frontier topics for BMA innovation such as those of Industry 4.0 remain unnoticed.

Financialization, premature deindustrialization, and instability in Latin America

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-511
Author(s):  
Esteban Pérez Caldentey ◽  
Matías Vernengo
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Advanced Stage ◽  
Investment Growth

The paper analyses the relation between premature deindustrialization in Latin America and what is termed premature financialization. Premature financialization is defined as a turn to finance, organized as an industrial concern, which is a vehicle for accumulation before the process of industrialization has reached maturity. This contrasts with developed countries where financialization occurs after an advanced stage of economic and social development has been reached, and where the growth of the financial sector, beyond a certain threshold, can be detrimental to economic activity. The paper examines the consequences of premature financialization for investment, growth, and financial stability.

scholarly journals A Monthly Regional Indicator of Economic Activity: An Application for Latin America

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Vidal ◽  
Lya Paola Sierra ◽  
Johana Sanabria ◽  
Jaime Andrés Collazos
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Economic Activity

Prospects for the global economy in the second quarter

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Early Recovery ◽  
Content Type ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Global Growth

Subject Prospects for the global economy in the second quarter. Significance Heightened geopolitical risk undermines the potential for any short-term strengthening of world economic activity. In the second quarter, global growth should be similar to that experienced in early 2015. Over the first half of this year, it will remain in the 3.0-3.5% range, similar to the 2014 growth rate of 3.3%. Many countries remain vulnerable to international tensions: there will be no early recovery in the commodity-producing economies of the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, or in Eastern Europe.

Predatory army will stifle east Libya economy

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Bank Failures ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
National Budget ◽  
Oil Revenues

Subject Eastern economy. Significance Discussion of economic issues in Libya generally focuses on the national and macroeconomic picture, and economic governance in the capital, Tripoli. However, the self-proclaimed governing authorities in Beida and Tobruk, plus Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA), and associated armed groups, also seek to control and raise revenues from a range of formal and informal economic activities. This has included predatory economic activity and profiteering. Impacts Haftar and the LNA will press on for greater allocations from the national budget for public institutions and employees in eastern Libya. Smuggling and migrant trafficking will be lucrative sources of income for the LNA. Circulation of increased oil revenues will reduce the risk of Libyan bank failures.

scholarly journals Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times

2016 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 1182-1215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leticia Arroyo Abad ◽  
Jan Luiten van Zanden
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Growth Trajectories ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Per Capita Gdp ◽  
Silver Mining ◽  
Per Capita

This article presents new estimations of per capita GDP in colonial times for the two pillars of the Spanish empire: Mexico and Peru. We find dynamic economies as evidenced by increasing real wages, urbanization, and silver mining. Their growth trajectories are such that both regions reduced the gap with respect to Spain; Mexico even achieved parity at times. While experiencing swings in growth, the notable turning point is in 1780s as bottlenecks in production and later, the independence wars reduced economic activity. Our results question the notion that colonial institutions impoverished Latin America.

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