This book provides an account of social protection institutions in Latin America. It aims to develop a systematic understanding of the contribu-tion of social protection institutions to shaping economic and social cooperation in the region. It is motivated by an acknowledgement that we lack a settled theory of social protection institutions in Latin America. Comparative study of socia…
The Portuguese explorer Francisco Newton was one of thefirst naturalists todedicate almost one decade to the study of the outstanding diversity of the Gulf ofGuinea oceanic islands. The collections he made, in what was largely unexploredterritory for science, allowed the description of dozens of new species and began toreveal intriguing biogeographic patterns. Gazing at the species he was colle…