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IT As Agent Of Social Change: Lonxanet And The Case Of The Galician Artisanal Fisheries [PDF]
(WP26/02 Clave pdf) Information Technologies (IT) can be used as an agent to foster social change. This case study describes an Internet start-up, Lonxanet, and analyzes its role as catalyst of drastic changes in the Galician (NW Spain) artisanal seafood
ENRIQUE DANS
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
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Technical Efficiency of Artisanal Fishing Households in Malawi
Research on World Agricultural EconomyThis study assesses the technical efficiency of artisanal fishing households in Malawi using the stochastic production frontier model, particularly, the Cobb-Douglas model. The specific objectives of the study were two-fold: to measure the productivity of the artisanal fishers in Malawi and to find the determinants of their technical efficiency.
Fredrick Mangwaya Banda +1 more
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ARTISANAL FISHING AND FISHERMEN OF ILHABELA - SAO PAULO STATE - BRAZIL [PDF]
, 2015 This work was developed in Ilhabela, northern coast of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The objective was to characterize artisanal fisheries in fishing communities of Jabaquara Beach, Serraria Beach, Fome Beach and Bonete Beach.
Begossi, A +3 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
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Applied interpolation methodology with GIS used for artisanal fishing zoning in Bahía Magdalena, Mexico [PDF]
Objective: To limit the artisanal fishing zones in the water mirror of Magdalena Bay, by means of interpolation. Design/methodology/approach: Through surveys, social, economic and biological production data, wich are collected from a sample of 56 ...
Escalona-Maurice, Miguel J. +3 more
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Individual Trandsferable Fishing Quotas in Chile: Recent History and Current Debates. [PDF]
Artisanal and industrial fishing sectors in Chile require the consolidation of fishery management schemes that promote the rationalization of fishing efforts, adjusting them to scarcer fish stocks.
Julio Peña-Torres
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Networks paving the way: Apprenticeship, guilds, and access to mastership in early modern Genoa
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in the guild‐based labour market of early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of more than 8,000 apprenticeship contracts (1451–1530), I examine the extent to which family and guild connections influenced apprentices' chances of attaining ...
Alessandro Brioschi
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The Economics of Fisheries Access Agreements: Perspectives on the EU-Senegal Case
Relations between coastal countries and fishing fleets from non-adjacent countries changed radically in the 1970s and early 1980s. This was primarily a consequence of the declaration of exclusive economic zones (EEZs) by many coastal states in the years ...
Johnstone, Nick
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