Privatization in Latin America

Barossi-Filho, Milton; Garrón, Mauricio; López-de-Silanes, Florencio; Chong, Alberto; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo; Ramírez, Manuel Becerra; Sturzenegger, Federico; Gutiérrez, Rodrigo Moreno; Pombo, Carlos; Torero, Máximo; Macedo, Robert de Oliveira; Schargrodsky, Ernesto; Anuatti-Neto, Francisco; Capra, Katherine; Serra, Pablo; Fischer, Ronald; Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul; Carvalho, Antônio Gledson de; Silanes, Florencio López de

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“…Opportunism is most likely to affect long-term investments when politicians: (i) enjoy strong executive powers that can easily overcome checks and balances (legislature, judiciary, or civil service and regulatory agencies); (ii) have short time horizons due to electoral cycles; and (iii) face low indirect institutional costs in reneging on contractual obligations (Spiller and Tommasi, 2007). Not surprisingly, then, given the prevalence of constitutions and historical traditions that favor strong executives, electoral cycles that typically do not exceed four years, and weakly institutionalized polities, extensive instances of company opportunism and of opportunistic manipulation of SOEs had already been documented throughout Latin America even before the wave of privatizations of the 1990s (Chong & López de Silanes, 2005;Savas, 1987;Tanoira, 1987).…”

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“…In economic policy, the poor performance of SOEs led to significant popular support for state divestiture by the end of the 1980s, a fact that conservative presidents in the region exploited to justify their privatization programs in the early 1990s. The Latin American public honeymoon with state divestiture continued well into 1995, when 75 percent of respondents still supported it (Chong & López de Silanes 2005).…”

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Institutions and Policy Choices: The New Left in Brazil

Rufín

Manzetti

2019

Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Introduction By the late 1990s, the neo-liberal, market-friendly reforms that had swept Latin America at the beginning of that decade were increasingly disappointing. Sustained growth failed to materialize, income inequality and unemployment often worsened, and key economic policies such as privatization, trade liberalization, and market deregulation were marred by corruption and crony capitalism. Worse yet, Mexico (1995), Brazil (1998), and Argentina (2002), which had been the symbols for such reforms, experienced severe economic crises, thus casting serious doubts on the soundness of pro-market policy advice. Riding on such dissatisfaction, left-wing populist leaders running on platforms that rejected the neo-liberal agenda were elected in Venezuela (

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Section: Defining and Explaining Opportunism: The Role Of Political Imentioning

confidence: 99%

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Institutions and Policy Choices: The New Left in Brazil

Rufín

Manzetti

2019

Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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“…Drug Repurposing or Repositioning, abbreviated DR, is the new technological gateway in drug development, accounting for about 30% of FDA-approved medications and vaccines. DR is the process of discovering new drugs or indications, repurposing the existing, or even discontinued, lines of pharmaceuticals [1]. One of the primary goals of health organisations across the globe is to guarantee that new chemical entities for the treatment of diseases of any kind are both safe and harmless while still being efficient [2].…”

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Virtual Screening of Kinase Based Drugs: Statistical Learning Towards Drug Repositioning

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Chattopadhyay

2022

J. Nanotech. Diagn. Treat.

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Kinases are phosphate catalysing enzymes that have traditionally proved difficult to target against ligands,and hence inefficacious in drug development. There are two colluding reasons for this. First is the issue of specificity. The homogeneity that exists between the kinase ATP-binding pockets makes it a non-realisable target to developcompounds that would inhibit only one out of 538 protein kinases encoded by the human genome, without inhibitingsome of the others. Second, producing compounds with the required efficacy to rival the millimolar ATP concentrations present in cells is stoichiometrically inefficient. This study uses a recently propounded computational strategy based onStructure Based Virtual Screening (SBVS) that was previously benchmarked on 999 DUD-E protein decoys(Chattopadhyay et al, Int Sc. Comp. Life Sciences 2022), to rank potential ligands, or by extension rank kinase-ligand pairs, identifying best matching ligand:kinase docking pairs. The results of the SBVS campaign employing severalcomputational algorithms reveal variations in the preferred top hits. To address this, we introduce a novel consensusscoring algorithm by sampling statistics across four independent statistical universality classes, statistically combining docking scores from ten docking programs (DOCK, Quick Vina-W, Vina Carb, PLANTS, Autodock, QuickVina2,QuickVina21, Smina, Autodock Vina and VinaXB) to create a holistic SBVS formulation that can identify active ligandsfor any target. Our results demonstrate that CS provides improved ligand:kinase docking fidelity when compared to individual docking platforms, requiring only a small number of docking combinations, and can serve as a viable andthrifty alternative to expensive docking platforms.

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Inequalities and Conflict: Water in Latin American Cities

Fournier

2014

Globalized Water

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Privatization in Latin America

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Institutions and Policy Choices: The New Left in Brazil

Institutions and Policy Choices: The New Left in Brazil

Virtual Screening of Kinase Based Drugs: Statistical Learning Towards Drug Repositioning

Inequalities and Conflict: Water in Latin American Cities

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