Английская Википедия:Carmen A. Miró

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Carmen A. Miró (19 April 1919 – 18 September 2022)[1] was a Panamanian sociologist, statistician, and demographer. She has been called Latin America's top expert in population,Шаблон:R and "probably the most outstanding figure that the Panamanian social sciences have produced".Шаблон:R

Life and career

Miró was the daughter of poet Ricardo Miró.Шаблон:R She studied business at the University of Panama, and went on to graduate studies at the London School of Economics.Шаблон:R

From 1946 to 1956, she headed the Panamanian Department of Statistics and the Census.Шаблон:R During this time she was also a professor of statistics at the University of Panama.Шаблон:R In 1957 she became the founding director of the Center for Latin American Studies of Demography of the United Nations (CELADE), now the Population Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.Шаблон:R She continued to direct CELADE until 1976. After four years at El Colegio de México she returned to Panama,Шаблон:R where she became affiliated with the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos (CELA) "Justo Arosemena".Шаблон:R

In 1984, she stood for election as vice president of Panama, but was unsuccessful.Шаблон:R Miró turned 100 in April 2019,[2] and died on 18 September 2022, at the age of 103.[3]

Recognition

In 1953, Miró was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for her many contributions to the greater effectiveness of the recent Censuses of the Americas" and for creating "a comprehensive and useful statistical system for her country".Шаблон:R

Miró has honorary doctorates from the University of Havana, from the National University of Córdoba, and from the Latin American Social Sciences Institute. In 1984 she won the United Nations World Population Prize.Шаблон:R In 2016 El Colegio de México gave her their Daniel Cosío Villegas Prize.Шаблон:R

An anthology of her collected writings was published in 2015.Шаблон:R

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