The living conditions of the urban poor have dramatically changed in Chile in the past two decades. On one hand, through a massive program of investment in subsidized housing, more than a million Chileans have moved out ...

Research Summary: Emerging economies increasingly try to stimulate innovation as a path toward economic development. One side effect of this is that foreign ownership of innovation in these contexts is increasing. This ...

Few places in the world offered 19th century women the opportunity that the British colony of Trinidad did: the chance to own land. Under the Land Commutation Scheme of 1869, the Indians who migrated there to work on the ...

Computer skills are valuable assets for medical students. A survey was conducted among the 283 students of the University of Chile Medical School at the East Campus and 90% answered the survey. Of these, 75% own a computer ...

Prime Minister Basdeo Panday is set to give Pan Trinbago an eight-acre parcel of land to house the organisation’s headquarters. This gift comes after years of attempts by the Steelband organisation to get ownership of a ...

We exploit the random assignment rule implemented by the government of the municipality of Salto (Argentina) in its program of social housing in order to identify the effect of the program on subsequent domestic ...

Este estudo baseia-se na Visão baseada em instituições para explicar as decisões de posse das multinacionais da América Latina em aquisições internacionais. Analisamos especificamente (1) o efeito da distância institucional ...

Purpose: To assess the relationship between the presence of pets in homes of epilepsy patients and the occurrence of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Methods: Parents or relatives of SUDEP patients collected ...