The Impact of Economic Freedoms on Tourism Competitiveness: Empirical Evidence from Latin America Countries

El objetivo del presente trabajo es discutir el papel y el alcance del turismo en los procesos de urbanización del litoral en Argentina y, por extensión, en Latinoamérica. Para ello, se identifican grupos de ciudades según su dinámica turística de acuerdo a los cambios y continuidades demográficas y económicas que han experimentado durante el periodo 2001 - 2010. Los resultados obtenidos permiten entender de manera contextualizada la naturaleza y funcionalidad turística y urbana de las diferentes ciudades del litoral de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Así, se han identificado seis grupos de ciudades según los procesos de cambio que ha provocado en ellas el turismo y se ha evidenciado la diversidad, complejidad y dinamismo que presenta cada tipo de conglomerado según sus características particulares. Todo ello ha permitido visualizar la diversidad de destinos que existen en el litoral de la provincia según su situación urbana particular y su evolución turística reciente. Por último, se ofrecen evidencias empíricas que respaldan la concepción que el turismo no solamente tiene efectos diferenciales en los procesos de urbanización, sino que, en función de las circunstancias locales, genera dinámicas específicas que deben explicarse a partir del conocimiento de la realidad económica y la identidad de cada lugar. The aim of this paper is to discuss the role and the impact of tourism in Argentina´s and thus Latin America´s coastal urban development processes. Hence, groups of cities with different tourism dynamics are identified according to their demographic and economic changes and continuities during the period 2001-2010. The results allow us to understand in a contextualized way the nature and tourist and urban functionality of the different cities in the littoral of Buenos Aires. Thus, six groups of cities have been identified according to the processes of change that tourism has caused in them and the diversity, complexity and dynamism that each type of cluster presents according to its particular characteristics has been evidenced. All this has allowed to visualize the diversity of destinations that exist in the littoral of the province according to its particular urban situation and its recent tourist evolution. Finally, empirical evidence is offered that supports the conception that tourism not only has differential effects on urbanization processes, but especially taking into account local circumstances, generates specific dynamics at the local level that must be explained from the knowledge of the economic reality and the identity of each place.

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The impact of public capital stock on energy consumption: Empirical evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean region

International Economics ◽

10.1016/j.inteco.2019.09.001 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 160 ◽

pp. 43-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Matheus Koengkan ◽

Renato Santiago ◽

José Alberto Fuinhas

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Capital Stock ◽

Public Capital ◽

Caribbean Region ◽

The Caribbean ◽

The Impact

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Accounting Systems' Classification in Latin America

Standardization of Financial Reporting and Accounting in Latin American Countries - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8453-9.ch002 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 32-55

Author(s):

Raquel Wille Sarquis ◽

Rudah Giasson Luccas

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Latin American ◽

Accounting Standard ◽

Accounting Systems ◽

Latin America Countries ◽

Latin American Countries ◽

The Way

This chapter aims to propose a classification based on accounting systems of five Latin American countries that have adopted IFRS. More specifically, we seek to identify which is the position of each country within this group of countries as a whole, providing empirical evidences of whether the accounting practices in Latin America countries are harmonized in the IFRS era, or not. Despite of international efforts around the convergence to IFRS, where companies would use the same accounting standard, reducing the differences in terms of accounting practices, there is empirical evidence of significant differences in the way that IFRS has been applied worldwide, resulting in “national versions of IFRS”. The results of this chapter provide empirical evidence that accounting practices in Latin America countries are harmonized, considering that the five countries analyzed have similar characteristics in terms of accounting systems.

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Right to be … Forgotten? Trends in Latin America after the Belén Rodriguez Case and the Impact of the New European Rules

Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198837138.013.26 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 502-521

Author(s):

Eduardo Bertoni

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Rorschach Test ◽

American System ◽

Right To Be Forgotten ◽

Legislative Reforms ◽

Intermediary Liability ◽

The Right ◽

Human Rights Standards ◽

The Impact ◽

Latin America Countries

The right to be forgotten might be seen more as a political slogan than as a ‘right’. As some have said, like all successful political slogans it is like a Rorschach test. People can see in it what they want. However, particularly after the Costeja case, this ‘right’ has begun to permeate Latin America countries in the form of legislative reforms and judicial requests to implement it. The Belén Rodriguez case decided by the Argentine Supreme Court is only one example, though not the only one that has had an indubious impact on how to define the right to be forgotten. This chapter will review other cases decided by Latin America courts and also legislative initiatives that link the right to be forgotten and intermediary liability. This chapter will in particular compare how these initiatives follow in the footsteps of the well-established Inter American System of Human Rights standards and the recent Europeans trends since Costeja. Finally, this chapter will give some guidance on how to balance the conflicting rights that arise when countries implement legal arrangements like the right to be forgotten or more generally delisting and de-indexing obligations.

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Exploring excess of deaths in the context of covid pandemic in selected countries of Latin America

10.31219/osf.io/xhkp4 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Everton Lima ◽

Estevão Vilela ◽

Andrés Peralta ◽

Marília Gabriela Rocha ◽

Bernardo L Queiroz ◽

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Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Causes Of Death ◽

Excess Mortality ◽

Lack Of Information ◽

The World ◽

Urbanized Areas ◽

Available Information ◽

Sanitary Conditions ◽

The Impact ◽

Latin America Countries

BACKGROUNDThe covid-19 pandemic has considerably affected the mortality numbers of many countries in the world, and Latin America is now the epicenter of the diseases. There is a great demand on analyzing the impact of this new disease in the amount of deaths, but available information of deaths by cause is still lacking in most of the countries in the region. OBJECTIVEWe aimed to measure the effects of the disease on mortality, using excess mortality, in two Latin America countries that were most affected by the covid-19 pandemic in the region: Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Peru. METHODSWe measured the effects of the pandemic by looking at the excess mortality, and comparing estimates of differences in the average number of deaths, variation coefficients and percentages of deaths between the months of March to May for 2019 and 2020. RESULTSOur findings indicated an excess of deaths initially in major cities, but then is spreading towards the least urbanized areas. In the next phase, pandemic will probably affect countries’ cities in worse socioeconomic and sanitary conditions. In Ecuador, we saw that the most affected locations were the less socioeconomic areas of the country. CONCLUSIONDespite the lack of information on causes of death, the excess of deaths is a good indicator for measuring the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, especially in the context Latin America countries. We find strong evidence of the pandemic’s impact and interiorization, especially in Brazilian cases. CONTRIBUTIONThis study provides an initial discussion of the effects of pandemic in small and less urbanized areas of Brazil and Ecuador.

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