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Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Central states have often relied on local elites to implement policies in peripheral areas. These strategies may allow otherwise weak states to impose their directives, but they can also be inefficient, particularly when a single elite commands total control over local politics (monopolist capture).
Anna F. Callis, Christopher L. Carter
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiter les frontières et réparer l’histoire

Anthropologie & Santé, 2013
Crossing boundaries is a well-known practice for Aymara people living in northern Chile, Peru and Bolivia. This population lives in a set of different ecological environments, blended together by means of what has been called vertical complementarity ...
Alejandra Carreño Calderón
doaj   +1 more source

Loving to Straighten Out Development: Sexuality and ‘Ethnodevelopment’ in the World Bank’s Ecuadorian Lending [PDF]

, 2005
Gender staff in the World Bank -- the world's largest and most influential development institution -- have a policy problem. Having prioritised efforts to get women into paid employment as the "cure-all" for gender inequality they must deal with the work
A Aulestia, A. Aulestia, A. Eguiguren, A. Escobar, A. Fausto-Sterling, A. Pallares, A. Stoler, A. Wilson, A.M. Smith, C. Cohen, C. Moser, C. Moser, C. Moser, C. Payer, C. Velasquez, C.A. Wood, D. Cooper, D. Elson, D. Kyle, D. Williams, E. Hafner-Burton, E. Povinelli, E.N. Glenn, G. Hancock, G. Herrera Mosquera, G. Kleitz, H.G. Guamán, I. Vallejo Real, I. Vallejo Real, J. Butler, J. Carabine, J. Collins, J. Fox, J. Hendricks, J. Murphy, J. Stevens, J. Stiglitz, J. Terry, J.K. Gibson-Graham, J.M. Rahier, K. Bedford, K. Treakle, K.A. Rosemblatt, KATE BEDFORD, L Briggs, L. Meisch, L. North, M. Camacho, M. Conejo, M. Correia, M. Correia, M. Crain, M. de la Cadena, M. Gutmann, M. Waring, M. Yunus, M.J. Alexander, N. Folbre, P.R.O.D.E.P.I.N.E, P.R.O.D.E.P.I.N.E, R. Colloreado-Mansfeld, R. Muňoz Consejal, R. O’Brien, S. Hamilton, S. Mallaby, S. Phelan, S. Radcliffe, S. Sawyer, T. Laqueur, V.S. Peterson, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, X. Albo   +78 more
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The institutional paradox of a substantivist conception of the economy in public policy: Insights from public procurement for solidarity economy in Ecuador

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecuador's 2008 Constitution advanced an ambitious substantive economic vision through Buen Vivir (Good Living), recognizing a plural economy which encompasses private, public and solidarity economy (SE) sectors. This paper aims to analyze public procurement programs in Ecuador, one of the flagship Buen Vivir policies for SE promotion.
Maria‐José Ruiz‐Rivera, Andreia Lemaître   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rural alternatives for local development: An intercultural analysis (case study from northern Ecuador)

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2022
This study takes a historical and analytical tour of the experiences, ways of life and community knowledge oriented towards the construction of alternatives to achieve development in the communities of Cotacachi and Yunguilla, Ecuador.
Anita Krainer, Karla Alejandra Hidalgo Palma, Maria Matilde Conejo Males   +2 more
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Faculty [PDF]

, 2006
Latin American ...
LLILAS Staff
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Environmental justice in education for climate action: Case studies from Perú and Uganda

Children &Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper draws on participatory research with secondary school learners in Perú and Uganda that shows how environmental and social (in) justices are interwoven and embedded in young people's experiences of the natural world. These experiences contrast with learners' accounts of environmental education in secondary schooling, in which the ...
Rachel Wilder, Expedito Nuwategeka, Carlos Monge, Alithu Bazan Talavera   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pishtacos. Human fat murderers, structural inequalities, and resistances in Peru

América Crítica, 2019
Political, economic, and institutional inequalities have enormous impacts on human problems and people’s everyday lives.  They create collective experiences of social suffering that may frequently find release through the production of collective ...
Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of traded bird species in key biodiversity areas

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The use and trade of biodiversity involve tens of thousands of species that are exploited at a range of scales, intensities, and degrees of sustainability. As a result, some are highly threatened. Key biodiversity areas (KBAs) are sites of significance for the persistence of biodiversity identified nationally based on standardized criteria ...
Oscar Morton, Tom Lansley, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Graeme M. Buchanan, David P. Edwards   +4 more
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¿Una nación en bosquejos? Procesos de identificación aymara en Chile durante el periodo transicional, 1990-1993

Historia Crítica
Objective/context: During the 1990s, the Aymara people actively participated in discussions on the status of indigenous peoples. This experience reinforced identification processes that gained renewed strength with the national democratic opening and the
Cristina Oyarzo
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