Paradox and Perception: Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America

Acknowledgments

The contributions in this book stem from research conducted in research institutions throughout Latin America under the auspices of the Network of Research Centers of the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as at Brookings and U.S. universities. The editors of the volume would like to thank Jere Behrman and Ravi Kanbur , who, as advisors of the network project, provided continuous intellectual support to both the editors and the authors, and contributed with helpful comments on various drafts. Valuable insights and suggestions from Suzanne Duryea, Rita Funaro, Leonardo Gasparini, Fidel Jaramillo, Santiago Levy, Philip Musgrove, Juan Carlos Navarro, Hugo Ñopo, Carmen Pagés, Carlos Pascual, William Savedoff, Ernesto Stain, Bernard van Praag and Carlos Eduardo Velez are acknowledged by the authors. At Brookings, Soumya Chattopadhay and Mario Picon provided valuable research assistance, and Janet Walker was pivotal from the perspective of the press. At the Inter-American Development Bank, research assistance by Juan Camilo Chaparro, Lucas Higuera and María Victoria Rodríguez was instrumental to the project, while Myriam Escobar-Genes, Carlos Andres Gómez-Peña and Eduardo Montero Monge provided invaluable logistic and editorial assistance. Graham acknowledges generous financial support from the Tinker Foundation for this project, and from Liberty Mutual Group for the Brookings Latin America initiative. Acknowledgments xiii ...