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, 1912 Appears in Information about Bolivia. Washington, D.C. : Press of B.S. Adams : Bolivian Legation, 1912. Additional Info Index to maps in books and periodicals / American Geographical Society of New York, v. 2, p.
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932
History, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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Non-Agricultural Labor from Rural Farmers in Bolivia: Determinants and Effects [PDF]
This paper analyses non-agricultural work supplied by rural households in Bolivia. It is shown that roughly 50% of all rural households complement their incomes through non-agricultural work, but that households in the lowlands are more likely to do so ...
Lykke E. Andersen +2 more
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Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides a systematic synthesis of contemporary elite sociology through the analytical lens of change and stability. We distinguish between two types of change: change within elites, referring to transformations in elite composition, circulation, or internal characteristics; and change by elites, designating processes whereby ...
Lena Ajdacic +13 more
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Experimental PhysiologyHighland populations suffer from significant infant mortality due to chronic ambient hypoxia, which increases the risk of congenital heart disease (CHD) and neonatal pulmonary hypertension. Neither the prevalence of these conditions nor the effectiveness
Alexandra Heath +12 more
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Microfinance Market Niches and Client Profiles in Bolivia [PDF]
This paper presents and interprets descriptive statistics generated from data obtained in a survey of clients of five microfinance organizations believed to be among the best in Bolivia.
Claudio Gonzalez-Vega +5 more
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Global Inequality of Opportunity in Education Decreased During the 20th Century
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We document changes in global inequality of opportunity in education for women and men born between 1941 and 1983, using individual‐level census and survey data on 46.7 million individuals from 95 countries, representing all major regions of the world.
Michael Grätz +2 more
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Geography and Development in Bolivia: Migration, Urban and Industrial Concentration, Welfare, and Convergence: 1950-1992 [PDF]
This paper argues that considering the impact of geographical variables within Bolivia makes feasible a considerably richer analysis. The picture that emergesis occasionally not entirely consistent with the international evidence, but nonethelesspoints ...
Osvaldo Nina +4 more
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Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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