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The Effect of Conditional Transfers on School Performance and Child Labor: Evidence from an Ex-Post Impact Evaluation in Costa Rica [PDF]

open access: yes
Conditional transfer programs are becoming a common approach to influence household decisions. The evidence to date is that these programs are good at promoting certain outcomes such as school attendance, but that other outcomes such as reducing child ...
Andrew Morrison, Suzanne Duryea
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Bocio en la provincia de Cartago

open access: yesActa Médica Costarricense, 2001
Justificación y Objetivo: La yodación de la sal en Costa Rica, establecida en 1972, hizo que el bocio por deficiencia de yodo disminuyera en forma importante. Sin embargo, las notificaciones por bocio en todo el país han aumentado en los últimos años, siendo Cartago una de las provincias más afectadas.
Fernández-Olaechea, María Dolores   +3 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Herramientas para la gestión Ambiental Municipal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Proyecto de Investigación. Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Extensión (VIE). Escuela de Química. Centro de Investigación en Protección Ambiental (CIPA), 2008Este proyecto tuvo como objetivo apoyar la gestión ...
Gaviria-Montoya, Lilliana   +1 more
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Manejo secuencial de las fracturas abiertas

open access: yesCiencia & Salud
Las fracturas abiertas son una gran problemática a nivel mundial, debido a que afectan principalmente a la población económicamente activa. Esto tiene un gran impacto a nivel social y económico de una comunidad al afectar directamente a una población ...
Braulio Zuñiga Aleman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bailouts in Costa Rica as a Result of Government Centralization and Discretionary Transfers [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigates the inter-relation between the central government and the municipalities in Costa Rica. It examines episodes in which the central government has bailed out the local governments from their obligations.
Alexander Monge-Naranjo   +2 more
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Development of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene(PEDOT)/carbon Nanotube Electrodes for Electrochemical Detection of Mancozeb in Water

open access: yesInternational Journal of Electrochemical Science, 2018
Assessments of the risk of water contamination caused by pesticides in agricultural areas are typically conducted using laborious methods and expensive instruments.Severe chronic diseases have been connected to the presence of Mancozeb (MCZ) in several ...
Roy Zamora   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

News from Academy Bay [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
Royal Visit. The Vice President of Ecuador in the Galápagos. The Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve. The Charles Darwin Foundation Endowment Fund. Repatriation of Captive-bred Land Iguanas. The 1987 Flamingo Census.

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First report of Lasiodiplodia theobromae causing Paulownia elongata dieback in Costa Rica

open access: yes
New Disease Reports, Volume 51, Issue 1, January/March 2025.
M. Rodríguez‐Solís   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genomic selection on cacao for disease resistance : S04T08 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Under favorable conditions, diseases can cause losses up to 100% in cacao. Breeding has been the most effective strategy in reducing these losses. However, breeding is limited by the: a) long generation time; b) large tree size (9 m2/tree); c) multiple ...
Clément, Didier   +6 more
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Seven songs from Costa Rica [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
In July of 1973, through the benificence of Professor Juan de Dios Trejos, music teacher from Cartago, Costa Rica, I had the pleasure of meeting doña Leticia de Céspedes.
Cruz-Sàenz, Michèle S. de
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