Market Mechanisms and Supply Adequacy in the Second Wave of Power Sector Reforms in Latin America

In this article,will examine a specific moment in the trajectories of both women's testimony and militancy, which have traced very powerful and certainly varied paths in recent decades in Argentina and Latin America, beginning at the beginning of democracy, after the Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), with women's testimonies on the sexual crimes suffered in clandestine detention centers (CCD). They are part of a second wave within the literary and cultural tradition of Latin American testimony. In a first movement, the testimony of revolutionary matrix, which includes ethnographic, guerrilla and journalistic testimony, was institutionalized in 1970 by Casa de las Américas under the revolutionary model that spread throughout the continent from Cuba. In order to approach the corpus of women's testimonies on sexual terrorism, we consider it appropriate to point out the articulation of three matrixes that have permeated both testimonial texts and political practices: the revolutionary narrative, the humanitarian narrative and the feminist discourse.

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Market-oriented Reforms and the Language of Popular Protest: Latin America from Charles III to the IMF

Social Science History ◽

10.1017/s0145553200016898 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 485-523 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ricardo D. Salvatore

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Financial Markets ◽

Free Market ◽

Foreign Competition ◽

Public Enterprises ◽

Political Debate ◽

Political Class ◽

Market Mechanisms ◽

National Economies ◽

Alternative Discourses

The market imperative—that is, the need to institute market mechanisms as solutions for a variety of social problems—seems to dominate current political debate in Latin America. Administrations as diverse as those of Collor de Mello, Fujimori, Menen, and Salinas de Gortari have been implementing economic reforms based on neoconservative principles. Privatization of public enterprises, national economies opened to foreign competition, the freeing of financial markets, and the compliance with International Monetary Fund (IMF) guidelines are now accepted goals among parties and leaders that, just a decade ago, contributed to building interventionist, redistributionist, and developmentalist coalitions. Broad segments of the political class now believe that only the wholesome implementation of free-market principles can lift Latin America from its decade-old crisis. Among the left, this apparent hegemony of market ideology has engendered confusion and pessimism. The heritage of authoritarian regimes, the protracted regional economic crisis, and, more recently, the revolutions of Eastern and Central Europe seem to have defeated the viability of alternative discourses about the crisis and its solutions.

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Using market mechanisms for a reliable energy transition in Latin America

The Regulation and Policy of Latin American Energy Transitions ◽

10.1016/b978-0-12-819521-5.00002-4 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 21-37

Author(s):

Alexandre Viana

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Market Mechanisms

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Multitemporal LMDI Index Decomposition Analysis to Explain the Changes of ACI by the Power Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1990–2017

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13092328 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. 2328 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Paulo M. De Oliveira-De Jesus ◽

John J. Galvis ◽

Daniela Rojas-Lozano ◽

Jose M. Yusta

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Power Plants ◽

Decomposition Analysis ◽

Carbon Intensity ◽

Power Sector ◽

Index Decomposition Analysis ◽

Energy Flows ◽

Index Decomposition ◽

The Caribbean ◽

The One

This paper analyzes the drivers behind the changes of the Aggregate Carbon Intensity (ACI) of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) power sector in five periods between 1990 and 2017. Since 1990 the carbon intensity of the world has been reduced almost 8.8% whereas the carbon intensity of LAC countries only decreased 0.8%. Even though by 2017 the regional carbon intensity is very similar to the one observed by 1990, this index has showed high variability, mainly in the last three years when the ACI of LAC fell from 285 gCO2/kWh in 2015 to 257.7 gCO2/kWh. To understand what happened with the evolution of the carbon intensity in the region, in this paper a Logarithmic Mean Divisia for Index Decomposition Analysis (IDA-LMDI) is carried out to identify the accelerating and attenuating drivers of the ACI behavior along five periods. The proposal outperforms existing studies previously applied to LAC based upon a single period of analysis. Key contributions are introduced by considering the type of fuel used in power plants as well as specific time-series of energy flows and CO2 emissions by country. Results reveal structural reasons for the increase of the ACI in 1995–2003 and 2008–2015, and intensity reasons for the decrease of the ACI in 1990–1995, 2003–2008 and 2015–2017.

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