Medellin, previously known as the commercial centre of Colombia, is now referred to as the"
cocaine capital", and as perhaps the most violent city in the world, with over 11,000 reported …

This paper explores appropriate strategies to eliminate the constraints faced by young
people in integrating into the productive and social life in rural communities in Latin America …

Children enter into street labor because they and their families need money. But the
necesidad (need) that brings children to work on the streets and the income that street labor …

Although there has been extensive research on the issue of street and street working
children in developing countries over the last 20 years, few studies specifically investigated …

The large number of street children in Latin America, the lack of a clear definition of the
problem, its complex causes, the lack of'a solution'and the uncertainty regarding the …

Rural youth is vital for the territorial development agenda. Youth is a critical stage of life
since it is when intellectual, physical, moral, economic, social and cultural autonomy of …

Many of the social programmes developed within the framework of the struggle against
poverty and/or unemployment in Latin America since the 1990s were focused on improving …

Latin Americans working at the community level would not use the term 'community
development'. They would find it a little vacuous, empty of the political content which …

Este artículo analiza y presenta los hallazgos sobre las aspiraciones migratorias de los
estudiantes de los colegios agrícolas en el sector rural del norte de Ecuador. Con un …

Abstract Set in the Aburra Valley of the Colombian Andes, the Metropolitan Area of Medellín
comprises 10 municipalities and 4.6 million inhabitants. As elsewhere in Colombia, violence …