OECD Territorial Reviews: Yucatan, Mexico 2007

OECD Territorial Reviews: Yucatan, Mexico 2007
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2007-10-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9264037101

The Mexican state of Yucatán, with its strategically important location near the United States, Central America and the Caribbean, is one of the most dynamic regions in the OECD. Yucatán is also a land of contrasts. It is a lagging but growing ...

OECD Territorial Reviews: Chihuahua, Mexico 2012

OECD Territorial Reviews: Chihuahua, Mexico 2012
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2012-04-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9264168982

This book examines the gains that might be made by a territorial approach to policymaking that integrates sectoral policies, fosters value-added in rural activities, and links SME-development and FDI-attraction policies as well as innovation capacities and applications.

OECD Journal on Budgeting, Volume 2009 Supplement 1 OECD Review of Budgeting in Mexico

OECD Journal on Budgeting, Volume 2009 Supplement 1 OECD Review of Budgeting in Mexico
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2009-11-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9264077367

This special issue of the OECD Journal on Budgeting focuses on Mexico and discusses the current systems for budget formulation and recent reforms, the role of Congress, budget execution and financial management, and performance budgeting, and makes recommendations for further action.

Traditional Smallholder Farmers in a Growing Economy and a Globalized World

Traditional Smallholder Farmers in a Growing Economy and a Globalized World
Author: Knerr, Béatrice
Publisher: kassel university press GmbH
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 386219907X

?Smallholder farming plays a central role for the livelihood security of rural families in most low- to middle income countries. Beyond that it contributes to sustain important ecological functions and services. Yet, world-wide, increasing economic pressure threatens its viability, while young and capable labour force is attracted away to urban centres. In the Mexican state of Yucatán - where foremost indigenous Mayan people are practicing traditional farming under adverse natural conditions, using a broad variety of agro-biodiversity - these predominant trends can be observed like in a burning lens. Farming is more and more just performed for subsistence while cash for daily expenses is obtained from other sources. Aware of the sector’s benefits for society, Mexican policy makers recently put its services regarding food and livelihood security, agro-biodiversity, and maintenance of cultural heritage high on the agenda. Starting from that baseline, research teams affiliated to the University of Kassel and the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY) conducted several interrelated research projects. All investigations are grounded in field work, including intensive interviews among local people and experts. The results are assembled in this volume.

Beyond the Megacity

Beyond the Megacity
Author: Nadine Reis
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 148753972X

Beyond the Megacity connects and reconnects the global debate on the contemporary urban condition to the Latin American tradition of seeing, considering, and theorizing urbanization from the margins. It develops the approach of "peripheral urbanization" as a way to integrate the theoretical agendas belonging to global suburbanisms, neo-Marxist accounts of planetary urbanization, and postcolonial urban studies, and to move urban theory closer to the complexity and diversity of urbanization in the Global South. From an interdisciplinary perspective, Beyond the Megacity investigates the natures, causes, implications, and politics of current urbanization processes in Latin America. The book draws on case studies from various countries across the region, covering theoretical and disciplinary approaches from the fields of geography, anthropology, sociology, urban studies, agrarian studies, and urban and regional planning, and is written by academics, journalists, practitioners, and scholar-activists. Beyond the Megacity unites these unique perspectives by shifting attention to the places, processes, practices, and bodies of knowledge that have often been neglected in the past.

OECD Territorial Reviews: Morelos, Mexico

OECD Territorial Reviews: Morelos, Mexico
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2017-06-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9264267816

This review examines how Morelos seeking to boost its economy, particularly through inclusive growth policies such as enhancing human capital and promoting innovation. It highlights areas of untapped potential for economic growth and suggests ways to address governance challenges.

Elite Mobilities

Elite Mobilities
Author: Thomas Birtchnell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2013-08-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136155414

Small in number but great in influence, mobile elites have shaped the contours of global capitalism. Today these elites continue to flourish globally but in a changing landscape. The current economic crisis—and rising concerns about the moral legitimacy of extreme wealth—coincides with stern warnings over the risks posed by climate change and the unsustainable use of resources. Often an out-of-bounds topic in critical social science, elites are thought of as too inaccessible a group to interview and too variable a minority to measure. This groundbreaking collection sets out to challenge this perception. Through the careful examination of the movements of the one per cent through the everyday spaces of the ninety-nine per cent, Elite Mobilities investigates the shared zones elites inhabit alongside the commons: the executive lounge in the airport, the penthouse in the hotel, or the gated community next to the slum. Bringing together the pioneer scholars in critical sociology today, this collection explores how social scientists can research, map, and ‘track’ the flows and residues of objects, wealth and power surrounding the hypermobile. Elite Mobilities sets a new benchmark in social science efforts to research the powerful and the privileged. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in mobilities, transport, tourism, social stratification, class, inequality, consumption, and global environmental change.

Stuck with Tourism

Stuck with Tourism
Author: Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520344480

Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the predatory geographies of late capitalism. It creates entangled futures of exploitation and dependence, extracting resources and labor, and eclipsing other ways of doing, living, and imagining life. And yet, tourism also creates jobs, encourages infrastructure development, and in many places inspires the only possibility of hope and well-being. Stuck with Tourism explores the ambivalent nature of tourism by drawing on ethnographic evidence from the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula, a region voraciously transformed by tourism development over the past forty years. Contrasting labor and lived experiences at the beach resorts of Cancún, protected natural enclaves along the Gulf coast, historical buildings of the colonial past, and maquilas for souvenir production in the Maya heartland, this book explores the moral, political, ecological, and everyday dilemmas that emerge when, as Yucatán’s inhabitants put it, people get stuck in tourism’s grip.