Alain
de Janvry
“Can Mexico’s Social Programs Reduce Poverty?”
Mexico
has been a pioneer in launching ambitious social programs to
assist the poor, which are currently coordinated in the Contigo
strategy. These programs have been quite effective in meeting
basic needs, particularly among the poorest. However, they
have been less successful in raising income through productive
employment and micro-enterprises. Prof. de Janvry will discuss
the reasons for these contradictory achievements and explore
ways in which social and income-generating programs could be
made complementary.
Alain de Janvry is an economist working on international economic development,
with expertise principally in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle-East
and the Indian subcontinent. Fields of work include: poverty analysis, rural
development, quantitative analysis of development policies, impact analysis
of social programs, technological innovations in agriculture and the management
of common property resources.
Monday,
January 31, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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Estelle
Tarica
“Mestizo Nationalism”
In
the mid-20th-century, a group of writers from Mexico, Bolivia
and Peru attempted to describe what might be called the “inner
life” of mestizo nationality. Prof. Tarica will examine
particular instances of this mode of narrating the experience
of modern nationality; discuss the important role played by indigenismo in
making these attempts possible; and address them as forms of
what Marisol de la Cadena terms “subordinate racism.”
Estelle
Tarica is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature
and Culture at UC Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative
Literature from Cornell University and is currently finishing
her first book, Intimate Indigenismo.
Monday, March 7, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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David Kyle
“The Transformation of Transnational Migration in Ecuador”
In a recent study of rural Ecuadorian communities with historically
high levels of transnational migration, David Kyle and Brad Jokisch
found that migration patterns have changed significantly. Migrants
with legal status in the United States have decamped with their
entire families. Those who did not get in before stiffer border
controls were implemented must now pay smugglers up to $14,000
to get to the U.S. or try their luck in Spain. Prof. Kyle will
discuss the causes and implications of these trends.
David Kyle is Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Davis.
He is the author of Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks,
and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador (Johns Hopkins University Press,
2000) and the co-editor of Global Human Smuggling: Comparative
Perspectives (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). His current
book project is Brokered Bodies: The Cross-Cultural Engineering
of Contemporary Households.
Monday,
March 28, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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Beatriz Magaloni
“Neoliberal Economic Policies and Partisan Cleavages in Latin
America”
Latin America has experienced a profound economic transformation
during the past three decades, with most countries in the region
abandoning Import Substitution Industrialization in favor of “neoliberal” economic
policies. Although the results of these policies vary considerably
across the region, economic growth remains elusive. Prof. Magaloni
will discuss the extent of support for neoliberal policies in
Latin America using macroeconomic data and a region-wide survey
on economic attitudes conducted in 1998.
Beatriz Magaloni is Assistant Professor of Political Science
at Stanford University. She recently finished a manuscript entitled
Voting for Autocracy: The Politics of Hegemonic Party Survival
and Demise soon to be released by Cambridge University Press.
She has written numerous articles on the Mexican democratization,
including many on voting behavior, political parties and the
rule of law.
Monday,
April 11, 12:00 – 1:15
pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
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