The public sector in the Caribbean : issues and reform options [PDF]
The public sector's performance in the Caribbean varies, in reducing poverty and in creating an enabling environment for growth. Barbados and the Bahamas have been the high performers, Guyana and the Dominican Republic have been sluggish, and the other ...
Swaroop, Vinaya
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The scaling of seed‐dispersal specialization in interaction networks across levels of organization
Ecography, EarlyView.Natural ecosystems are characterized by a specialization pattern where few species are common while many others are rare. In ecological networks involving biotic interactions, specialization operates as a continuum at individual, species, and community levels. Theory predicts that ecological and evolutionary factors can primarily explain specialization.
Gabriel M. Moulatlet +3 more
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CARIBBEAN PATHWAY ANALYSIS A collaboration between the Caribbean Invasive Species Working Group and the U.S. Department of Agriculture: Evaluation of Pathways for Exotic Plant Pest Movement into and within the Greater Caribbean Region [PDF]
, 2009 Heike E. Meissner +5 more
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People's Republic of China and Latin America and the Caribbean: ushering in a new era in the economic and trade relationship [PDF]
, 2011 Spanish and chinese versions available at the LibraryForeword by Alicia BárcenaThis document focuses on recent developments in trade between China and the Latin American and Caribbean region with respect to countries, sectors and goods, as well as ...
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Ecography, EarlyView.The rapid adoption of environmental DNA (eDNA) methods has drastically changed biodiversity monitoring efforts. It is often claimed that eDNA methods are more sensitive and efficient than conventional biodiversity monitoring methods, but it is often unclear what metrics support this claim.
Nicholas J. Iacaruso +4 more
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Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.Abstract Objective Status epilepticus (SE) is an acute complication that can either occur in the course of epilepsy, or reflect an acute neurological or systemic disorder. SE incidence and associated mortality vary across regions and studied populations.
Florian Negrello +8 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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The Impact of Democratization and Globalization on Environmental Sustainability in Brazil
Geological Journal, EarlyView.Fossil fuel, economic globalisation, and economic growth drive environmental degradation while democratisation positively influences environmental quality. ABSTRACT Although Brazil still possesses significant ecological reserves, the surplus in its biocapacity has been rapidly declining in recent years.
Mustafa Naimoğlu +3 more
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Association between the level of education and knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding dengue in the Caribbean region of Colombia [PDF]
, 2018 Fredi Alexander Díaz-Quijano +5 more
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Imitation of location choices for rare foreign ventures: Tax‐motivated relocations of headquarters
Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Peer firms tend to imitate each other's location choices for foreign subsidiaries. We examine whether they also engage in location choice imitation when undertaking rare, high‐stakes foreign ventures in the form of tax‐motivated relocations of headquarters.
Aleksi Eerola +2 more
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