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verónica judith acevedo es becaria doctoral de Instituto de Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

gina alvarado is a sociologist and gender and evaluation specialist at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). Previously she was a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, on a UN Women–funded study of gender and remittances in Ecuador. Her work is focused on women’s well-being and access to assets, as well as gender violence and rights. Her current portfolio at ICRW includes managing projects and research to improve women’s access to justice and property rights, as well as investigating the social costs of violence.

josé ernesto amorós is professor and director of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Center, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.

antonio teixeira de barros has a PhD in sociology from the University of Brasília, Brazil, and a postdoctorate in environment information from Fernando Pessoa University in Portugal. He is a professor and researcher in the professional master’s course in political science maintained by the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil. He coordinates the research group “Interactivity, Visibility, and Transparency: The Chamber of Deputies and Its Strategies for Improvement of Democracy.”

cristiane brum bernardes has a PhD in political science from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil. She is a professor and researcher in the professional master’s course in political science maintained by the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil.

fernando borraz is a senior researcher at the Banco Central del Uruguay and Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República.

marco cícero cavallini é doutor em história social pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas e professor adjunto da Universidade Estadual de Maringá. Atua nas disciplinas de teorias da história e história e literatura. Desenvolve pesquisa sobre a obra de Machado de Assis e Brasil Império, com ênfase nos temas de cultura, escravidão, melancolia e literatura.

stephen clarkson, CM, FRSC (1937–2016) was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto. His work on the impact of globalization on the political economy of North America and the Canadian state appeared as a trilogy: Dependent America? (2011), Does North America Exist? (2008), and Uncle Sam and Us (2002), published by the Woodrow Wilson Center and University of Toronto Press. In recent years, his research addressed the interregional diffusion of (and resistance to) rules and institutions promoting transnational corporations’ investments among Europe, North America, and South America. Thanks to the Konrad Adenauer Research Award, his latest work was integrated into the “Transformative Power of Europe” research project at the Free University of Berlin. [End Page 297]

carmen diana deere is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Latin American studies and food and resource economics at the University of Florida. She has been a visiting scholar and visiting professor at FLACSO-Ecuador, where she directed the UF-FLACSO “Gender, Poverty, and Assets” study. She is coauthor, with Magdalena León, of Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America (2001), which was awarded LASA’s Bryce Wood Book Award. She is an associate editor of Feminist Economics and coedited two of its special issues, “Women and the Distribution of Wealth” (2006) and “Gender and International Migration” (2012).

luis gabriel galán-guerrero es historiador y magister en historia de la Universidad de los Andes. Actualmente es investigador del Centro de Estudios en Historia (CEHIS) de la Universidad Externado de Colombia y ha trabajado como asistente de investigación del Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos, St. Antony’s College, de la Universidad de Oxford. Actualmente, sus á reas de interé s versan sobre los jesuitas durante la monarquía católica española y la política y comunicaciones en Colombia entre los siglos XVIII y XX.

john henderson is a JD/MBA candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business. He holds an MSc in international political economy from the London School of Economics and has previously worked at the International Monetary Fund. His research interests include international monetary cooperation, the roles of international and regional...

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