About
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| The Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) was founded in July 1992 in order to encourage greater professional interaction and foster increased dialogue among researchers and practitioners who focus their work on the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean. As a matter of policy, LACEA welcomes economists of all nationalities, theoretical orientations and policy perspectives. |
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| In 1996, LACEA launched its own annual international meeting. The first meeting took place that year in Mexico City, with the presentation of 157 papers and more than two hundred participants. |
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| LACEA has since expanded its activities in several other directions. Together with the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, it created the Network on Inequality and Poverty in 1998. Since 2008, the United Nations Development Programme is also supporting NIP´s activities |
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| LACEA is supported by grants from the Global Development Network, as part of its program on Regional Research Consortia capacity building, and the World Bank’s Development Grant Facility. The Annual Meetings receive grants from The World Bank, The Inter-American Development Bank, The Ford Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. |
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| The Network on Inequality and Poverty |
| Launched in 1998, The Network on Inequality and Poverty is a joint initiative between LACEA, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and the UNDP, that aims to advance the state of knowledge and expertise regarding the causes and consequences of poverty, inequality, and social exclusion, and the whole range of policies, institutions, and social structures that influence their dynamics, as well as the impact of public action. It endeavours to promote the creation and dissemination of high quality research applied to Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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| Organization |
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| NIP is organized into fifteen national chapters, which operate with certain autonomy, and an Executive Committee that coordinates the Network and organizes common activities. |
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| The executive committee is composed of six members. Three members are elected from among the Heads of each National Chapter. In addition, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations Development Programme have one representative each. |
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| The fifteen national chapters are located in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. The NIP has more than three hundred members based in 26 countries in the Americas and Europe. |
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Mexican Chapter
The Mexican chapter actively promotes Network´s objectives. NIP´s recent activities include: a)co-sponsoring UNDP´s Regional Report on Inequality in LAC (to be released in early 2010); b)hosting a LAC-regional conference on the intra- and inter-generational transmission of inequality (February 2008, El Colegio de México); and c) co-organizing (jointly with Centro de Estudios Económicos from El Colegio de México) round tables with policy makers and members of academia on current Mexican economic policy in times of crisis (June 2009, El Colegio de México).
The Mexican chapter has three chapter heads:
Rodolfo de la Torre
rodolfo.delatorre@undp.org.mx
John Scott
john.scott@cide.edu
Isidro Soloaga
isoloaga@colmex.mx
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