scholarly journals EFFECTS OF DISORGANIZED URBANIZATION ON ENVIRONMENT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luu Thi Truc Quyen ◽  
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao ◽  
Nguyen Duc Thanh ◽  
Nguyen Thu Thao ◽  
Ngô Mỹ Tâm
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Annual Growth ◽  
Positive Data ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Low Levels

Having overcome a stage of accentuated growth in urbanization (a 93% increase since 1950), today high levels are being maintained, but with a certain equilibrium. The countries whose urbanization levels have grown most are Colombia and Brazil, with an average annual growth of nearly 1.3% between 1950 and 2015.According to BBVA Research, urbanization in Latin America began earlier than in other regions and has managed to develop at a much faster pace. In addition, and keeping in mind the characteristics of Latin America, this increase in the levels of urbanization has greater merit, if one takes into account the low levels of income, capital, employment and productivity.In spite of the positive data on its development and growth, urbanization continues to be concentrated in a very limited number of cities. Only Mexico and Brazil have more than a dozen cities with over a million inhabitants, while countries such as Uruguay and Paraguay don´t have more than two cities with a population of more than one million residents.

scholarly journals EFFECTS OF DISORGANIZED URBANIZATION ON ENVIRONMENT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thu Thao ◽  
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao ◽  
Ngô Mỹ Tâm ◽  
Nguyen Duc Thanh ◽  
Luu Thi Truc Quyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Annual Growth ◽  
Positive Data ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Low Levels

Having overcome a stage of accentuated growth in urbanization (a 93% increase since 1950), today high levels are being maintained, but with a certain equilibrium. The countries whose urbanization levels have grown most are Colombia and Brazil, with an average annual growth of nearly 1.3% between 1950 and 2015.According to BBVA Research, urbanization in Latin America began earlier than in other regions and has managed to develop at a much faster pace. In addition, and keeping in mind the characteristics of Latin America, this increase in the levels of urbanization has greater merit, if one takes into account the low levels of income, capital, employment and productivity.In spite of the positive data on its development and growth, urbanization continues to be concentrated in a very limited number of cities. Only Mexico and Brazil have more than a dozen cities with over a million inhabitants, while countries such as Uruguay and Paraguay don´t have more than two cities with a population of more than one million residents.

Does context matter? Examining robbery reporting in a high crime country

2021 ◽  
pp. 174889582110313
Author(s):  
Wilson Hernández ◽  
Katrina R Heimark
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Multilevel Modeling ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Violent Victimization ◽  
The World ◽  
Victimization Rate ◽  
Global North ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
High Crime

Most empirical studies that examine why individuals report property crimes to the police have focused on Global North countries where crime rates are low. This study is situated in the most violent area of the world, Latin America, and examines Peru, which has the highest robbery victimization rate in the Americas. This article examines the applicability of theories of crime reporting in this Global South context using a large sample and multilevel modeling. We find that trust in the police has no impact on the reporting of the robbery of one’s cellphone, purse or wallet. The theories of rational choice and Black’s stratification of law provide strong explanations for the reporting of robbery of these personal items. Individuals of higher social status and those who reside in districts with low levels of social disadvantage are more likely to report, as well as those who have experienced violent victimization.

scholarly journals Two Cities of Latin America: A Comparative Description of Social Classes.

1962 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 268
Author(s):  
Gino Germani ◽  
Andrew Hunter Whiteford
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Comparative Description

Labour informality may increase in Latin America

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Surplus Labour ◽  
Low Levels

Subject The informal sector in Latin America. Significance The scale of informality in Latin American labour markets is widely seen as the main reason for the region's low levels of labour productivity; consequently, policymakers seek ways to induce a transfer of labour towards the formal sector where, in addition, workers come within the tax net. However, in spite of a decade of growth in the region, levels of informality have remained stubbornly high. Impacts A reduction in informality could increase the number of taxpayers and thus revenues. Tighter migration policies in the United States could limit options for surplus labour to relocate elsewhere. Lower birth rates will slow the number of new entrants into the labour market overall.

Expat anxieties: Risk and safety in Cape Town, South Africa and Santiago de Chile

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110138
Author(s):  
Nicky Falkof
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Latin America ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
The North ◽  
Santiago De Chile ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Discursive Constructions

This article considers ‘expatriate’ discourses about security in Cape Town, South Africa and Santiago de Chile. The cities themselves have reputations as desirable, beautiful, civilised, modern and welcoming, in contrast to lurid ideas about poverty, crime, filth and corruption that often characterise northern imaginings of the developing world. Yet, their locations within sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, respectively, nonetheless mark them out as potential spaces of high risk for migrants from the north. In this article, I am interested in the way in which lifestyle migrants to these cities negotiate fears about risk and safety within their new homes. In order to consider this question, I discuss posts on the online messageboards dedicated to these two cities within the popular InterNations ‘expat forum,’ as well as a series of interviews with people who use the forum. I use these respondents’ discursive constructions of safety, threat, otherness, belonging and the unknowability of the global south city to consider some of the affective underpinnings of this form of privileged migration.

scholarly journals Notas bibliográficas

1960 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 318-325
Author(s):  
Sergio Elías Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
American Press ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Comparative Description

Notas bibliográficas de las siguientes obras: Archiv Für Völkerkunde.  Band XIV. Herausgegeben vom Museum für Völkerkunde in Wien und vom Verein "Freunde der Völkerkunde". Wilhelm Braumüller Wien Universitäts-Verlag. Wien, 1960. L’antropologie.  Editée avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Tome 64. N° 1-2, Paris, 1960. Journal de la Sicieté Des Americanistes. Nouvelle Série. Tome XLVIII. Paris, 1959. Anthropological Quarterly.  The Catholic University of American Press. Volume 33. Washington, 1960. Whiteford (Andrew H.): Two cities of Latin America. A comparative description of social classes. Logan Museum Publications in Anthropology. Number 9. Beloit, WISC., 1960. 156 pp.

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