Lives and Livelihoods: Economic and Demographic Change in Modern Latin America

Welcome to the home page for "Lives and Livelihoods: Economic and Demographic Change in Modern Latin America", a workshop at the College of Management and Economics, University of Guelph, Canada, May 26-27 2006. The workshop is sponsored by the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the University of Guelph and the International Development Research Centre.

All sessions will be held in Room 1713 of the Ontario Veterinary College's Lifetime Learning Centre. http://www.uoguelph.ca/campus/map/lifetime.shtml. Dinner Friday is at the Diana Downtown, 141 Wyndham St N., 836-3460.

Papers for discussion are posted in advance of the workshop. Please click on the titles of individual papers in order to open or save the papers.

For further information please contact: Kris Inwood, Department of Economics, University of Guelph. The preliminary program follows.

Friday May 26

10:00-10:15        welcome, Dr. Steve Palmer, President, Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

10:15-12:00      Mortality and Living Standards
chair: Stuart McCook, University of Guelph

Anne-Emanuelle Birn (University of Toronto), Wanda Cabella (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) and Raquel Pollero Beheregaray (Universidad de la República)
El enigma de la mortalidad infantil en Uruguay en la primera mitad del sixlo XX: Un análisis por causas de muerte

Ricardo D. Salvatore, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Heights, Nutrition and Welfare in Argentina (1780-1950): Recent Findings and its Importance for the Economic History of Argentina

Moramay López-Alonso, Rice University
A History of Poverty and Inequality in Mexico, 1840-1940: An Anthropometric Approach

12:00-12:45    lunch

12:45-2:00      The Impact of Globalization and Liberalizing Reforms on Growth and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
introduction: Steve Palmer, University of Windsor
speaker: Albert Berry, University of Toronto

2:00-3:45        Globalization and National Economic Policies before 1930
chair: Jordi Díez, University of Guelph

Mar Rubio, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Protectionist but globalized? Latin American custom duties and trade during the pre-1914 belle époque

José Ricardo Barbosa Gonçalves and Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Sao Paulo
Commodity prices, financial integration and policy options: the performance of Brazilian economy, 1889-1931

4:00-5:45        Micro Finance and Social Capital
chair: Kris Inwood, University of Guelph

Kurt Annen, University of Guelph
Social Capital in the Urban Informal Sector in Developing Countries -- Micro Evidence from Small Textile Producers in Bolivia

Craig McIntosh, University of California at San Diego and Tomas Rosada, University of Guelph & Universidad Rafael Landivar
The Development and Use of Credit Information Systems in Industrialized and Developing Countries

7:00-               reception and dinner

Saturday May 27

9:30-12:00      Migration and Remittances
chair: Arjan de Haan, University of Guelph

Cristóbal Mendoza, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Mexico-US migration patterns in the nineties: Data from four Mexican surveys

Frans Schryer, University of Guelph
How Remittances Are Spent in the Nahua Village of Ahuehuepan, Guerrero

Alan Simmons, York University (Toronto) and Dwaine Plaza, Oregon State University
Remittance and their Impacts in Home Countries: Evidence from Guyanese, Jamaicans and Haitians in Canada

12:00-1:00    lunch

1:00-2:45    Rural Livelihoods and Marketing Structures
chair: Sally Humphries, University of Guelph

José Blandon, University of Guelph
Small-Farmer Participation in New Agrifood Systems: The Case of Supermarkets in Honduras

Dalila Cervantes, University of Guelph
The Growth of Supermarkets in Mexico and Its impact on Small-scale Farmers of Fruits and Vegetables