Declining infant mortality in Latin America: progress exceeds expect

Economic Development, Infant Mortality, and Their Dynamics in Latin America

10.3386/w1206 ◽

1983 ◽

Author(s):

Tadashi Yamada

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Latin America ◽

Infant Mortality

Download Full-text

The Effects of Infant Mortality on Fertility Revisited: New Evidence from Latin America

Demography ◽

10.2307/2648133 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 41 ◽

Cited By ~ 48

Author(s):

Alberto Palloni ◽

Hantamala Rafalimanana

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Infant Mortality ◽

New Evidence

Download Full-text

Sanitation and Health: Empirical evidence for Brazilian Municipalities

Brazilian Review of Econometrics ◽

10.12660/bre.v39n22019.78963 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 269

Author(s):

Enlinson Mattos ◽

Cristine Pinto ◽

Lucas Iten Teixeira ◽

Luis Meloni

Keyword(s):

Water Quality ◽

Latin America ◽

Infant Mortality ◽

Life Expectancy ◽

Piped Water ◽

Access To Water ◽

Service Coverage ◽

Public Costs ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

<p>Despite the fact of being the largest economy in Latin America, piped water service coverage and sewage collection is not universal in Brazil. The relationship between access to water/sanitation and health was the objective of many studies recently. The majority of the existing work focuses on the impact of access to water and sewage, not investigating the effects of water quality and treatment. Moreover, the existing literature usually focuses on infant mortality and life expectancy indicators. Although these measures are important, they may not capture all the relevant public costs associated with health and related to hospitalizations. This paper aims at filling this gap by identifying the effects of sanitation policies on children morbidity rates by certain diseases in Brazilian municipalities.</p>

Download Full-text

Coloniality and Solitude in García Márquez’s Public Speeches and Newspaper Articles

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190067168.013.25 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 438-454

Author(s):

Ignacio López-Calvo

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Infant Mortality ◽

Latin American ◽

Third World ◽

Daily Life ◽

First Century ◽

The World ◽

Narrative Mode ◽

Everyday Reality ◽

Ways Of Being

Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realist narrative mode has been criticized by some scholars and by younger Latin American writers of resorting to a certain tropicalism that exoticizes Latin America as a region where violence and sensuality dominate every aspect of daily life, thus selling a magical Third World underdevelopment full of superstitions, mythical legends, popular folklore, and distortions of time for the Global North’s reading markets that is quite different from everyday reality in the region. Yet whether or not one agrees with this assessment, there is undoubtedly a different image of Latin America when one reads García Márquez’s journalism and public speeches. This article contrasts the author’s novelistic, magical realist image of Latin America in some of his works with the typically more realistic one (there are some exceptions) presented in his speeches collected in the volume I’m Not Here to Give a Speech (2010). Thus, in his 1982 speech “The Solitude of Latin America,” given during his Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance, as well as in his 1995 speeches “Latin America Exists” and “Dreams for the Twenty-First Century,” one finds an anti-Eurocentric stance, in which he demands that Europe try to conceive of Latin America in a different, less paternalistic way. He demands that non-Eurocentric, Latin American worldviews and ways of being in the world be respected in equal terms. Moreover, a sober, realistic denunciation of injustice, infant mortality, disappearance, genocide, imperialism, the abundance of forced exiles and refugees, and other social evils pervades many of these speeches.

Download Full-text