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Child Care Choices of Hispanic Families: Why Aren't Families Using Center Care? — 2010

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Reconstructing Haiti — 2010

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Examining U.S. Counterterrorism Priorities and Strategy Across Africa’s Sahel Region — 2009

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Selection, Wear, and Tear: The Health of Hispanics and Hispanic Immigrants in the United States — 2009

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Security in Mexico: Implications for U.S. Policy Options — 2009

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Could Mexico Fail? — 2009

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Other Regional Research at RAND

RAND engages in significant research in the regions of Latin America and Africa. RAND's Latin America work began during the Cold War era with in-depth analysis of U.S.-Cuban relations and has expanded to include issues related to health, education, economics, demographics, and political reform. RAND's work covering Africa encompasses many critical issues related to health, education, and political reform in the developing world.

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RAND Partners with New Central America Chronic Disease Center for Excellence — Feb. 2, 2010

Quality of Care Tools

CIIPEC (Centro Integral del INCAP para la Prevención de las Engermedades Crónicas) is a Center of Excellence coordinated by INCAP (Instituto de Nutrición de Centroamérica y Panamá) with technical support of RAND Coorporation and the Public Health Schools of Johns Hopkins, Michigan and Harvard Universities; searching for the improvement of capacities needed for the prevention and control of Nutrition-Related Chronic Diseases (NRCD) of the Ministrys of Health and Universities of Mesoamerica and Dominican Republic.

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Skip the Graft — Jan. 17, 2010

a wounded Haitian girl, photo courtesy of flickr/United Nations Development Programme

The latest disaster to befall Haiti creates the opportunity to combine bipartisan accord on Haiti in Washington with keen and perhaps sustained American public interest. This is the subject of a commentary by James Dobbins that appeared in The New York Times.

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BRIC-à-Brac — Jun. 16, 2009

Flags of the participating counties

The leaders of the BRIC countries Brazil, Russia, India, and China hold their first stand-alone summit in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on Tuesday, June 16, but the timing of this meeting is hardly coincidental, as discussed by Andrew Weiss for ForeignPolicy.com .

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Assessing Mexico's Narco-Violence — May 18, 2009

Mexican street sign depicts figure holding gun, photo courtesy of flickr/maƱoso

Drug-related violence in Mexico has more than doubled over the past 18 months, with a sharp increase in crimes that can only be understood as atrocities, since these are some of the same tactics used by al-Qaeda in Iraq according to Benjamin Bahney and Agnes Gereben Schaefer in this commentary for The San Diego Union-Tribune.

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