and Clusters in Latin America Natural Resource – Implication and Future Challenges Tomas Gabriel Bas (1)‚ Ernesto Amoros (2)‚ Martin Kunc (3) Abstract The natural resources play a very important role in the economy of the Latin America countries‚ but follow the classical models of resource exploitation and scale do not add much more value to the products or services like other knowledge-based industries (biotechnology or IT). The cluster approach assembled around the pattern of innovation
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Latin America: Where Independence does not come Easy The revolution that took place during the late 18th and 19th century was the Latin America Wars of Independence. These wars led to the creation of many different independent nations in Latin America. Even though they gained independence there was a lot of issues trying to establish who would gain power. This caused a number of obstacles to achieving political stability and economic development. Many leaders from the independence movement had ideas
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Ch. 19: Early Latin America Introduction -During the 15th+16th centuries‚ Spain and Portugal colonized the Americas • Colonies were dependent (unlike Russia’s expansion) -Created economic dependency on W w/ lasing effects • Colonies maintained special contact w/ W (like Russia) -But Russia could decide what to borrow; colonies had W forms imposed • Superior tech.‚ horses‚ and disease allowed conquerors to dominate natives • Social hierarchy changed by intermarriage of natives+Europeans and
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#4: The Monroe Doctrine allowed the U.S. to dominate Latin America. ~Negative. If you look at the U.S. now‚ what do you see? Well‚ what you do not see is this nation owning much of Latin America. In fact‚ there are 24 Latin American countries‚ and the U.S. controls only 1 out of those 24. The Monroe Doctrine did not allow the U.S. to dominate Latin America‚ if it really did help a lot‚ we would be in control of many more countries. The Monroe Doctrine was a policy written by the U.S. in 1823
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Global Trade and the Impact of the American Dollar Globalization and global trade have become the norm of American society and many other countries around the word. They both stimulate the economy in a variety of ways. They force economic growth to occur‚ create new jobs‚ cause prices on goods to fall‚ and overall they improve our standards of living. On the other hand globalization and global trade can hurt a nation economically‚ socially‚ and politically. After WWII‚ the growth of the economy
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Examination of Latin America: Brazil The first European settlers to arrive to Brazil were the Portuguese‚ which were led by Pedro Cabral‚ who began to colonies in the region. The Europeans found approximately 7 million native Indians living in the region. Portuguese explorers came in search of valuable goods for European trade‚ unsettled land‚ and opportunities to escape poverty in Portugal. The only item they discovered at the time of value was the Brazil wood tree (pau do brasil) from which they
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How to build a better future for Latin America Introduction Latin America faces important development challenges. Problems that faced new nations in Latin America included political instability and foreign economic drop downs‚ civil wars‚ revolutions and regimes. Leaders who tried to modernize their territories also had to face the opposition of powerful and traditional situations like believes and influences from radical leaders. Despite these problems‚ to me there are some problems we have
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Even their political aspects differ greatly. The social‚ political‚ and economic aspects of Britain and Spain’s colonial enterprises differ immensely. Spain and Britain’s economic aspects differ. When people from Britain first settled in the Americas they were part of a privately owned company. This is important to know because they were only out to make a profit. Although they expected to make money off of gold they instead made it off of crops like tobacco. With them not making as big a profit
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1850 through 1960 had a great Impact on the regions of Latin America and East Asia. During this time‚ they faced many political and economic challenges however‚ these challenges and the way Latin America and East Asia reacted to them had similarities and at the same time were very different. Economically‚ both of these regions relied heavily on imports from industrialized countries and were both politically instable although more so Latin America than East Asia. Communism during this time was spreading
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Review Sheet for GEOG 320: Latin America – Exam 3 – Spring 2014 Contemporary Cities -- Chapter 14 What were the reasons for rapid urbanization / urban growth in the 1900s? What are the rural push factors for migration to cities? And the urban pull factors? What are some examples of formal and informal economic activities in Latin American cities? Why might governments want to stop “self-help” housing? Why might governments want to support “self-help” housing? “self-help” housing
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