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While the Klein & Saks team was working in the country, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile entered into an academic agreement with the University of Chicago under the auspices of the U.S. government. The economists formed under this program would be very influential in Chile, as part of ...

Accelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters. Floods, earthquakes, storms and conflicts affecting densely populated areas produce significant losses in lives, livelihoods and the built environment, especially in comparison to rural areas. Poor urban dwellers, almost alw...

La rápida transformación de China y su espectacular crecimiento económico hasta convertirse en la segunda economía mundial la han convertido en una pieza clave del nuevo orden internacional. La emergencia de China y su protagonismo en el nuevo orden internacional contrasta con la percepción y las...

The integration of physical and mental health services is based in recent neuroscientific findings and is validated by epidemiological findings. We use information from several Chilean national databases (OPHI, Oxford University; National Institute of Youth, United Nations Development Program) to...

I was born on October 19, 1974 in Santiago, Chile. Due to a syndrome called Meromelia, I was born with all of my limbs incomplete. Chile of the late twentieth century was a very hostile society toward people with disabilities, without accessibility in the buildings and streets. When I was suppose...