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American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 171-182, May 2026.Abstract In Colombia's northeastern borderlands, agrarian economies shape how disease risk and stigma are understood and managed. As shown in ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Catatumbo region, cutaneous leishmaniasis—a sandfly‐transmitted disease that produces chronic skin lesions—appears in two radically different guises across adjacent ...
Javier Lezaun, Lina Pinto‐García
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Outsiders and regional trade agreements among small countries : the case of regional markets [PDF]
Standard theory says that a country's welfare is unaffected by being excluded from a small regional trade agreement. But for most products,"small"countries and regional trade agreements do have some measure of market power. Such market power can arise if
Gupta, Anju, Schiff, Maurice
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Morphological, Molecular, and Isotopic Approaches to Termite Ecology: A Mangrove Case Study
Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.Termite communities in Caribbean mangroves, though species‐poor, sustain crucial decomposition and nutrient cycling. Their overlapping niches and stochastic assembly highlight termites' resilience and ecological importance in supporting the functioning of these challenging coastal ecosystems.
Robin Casalla, Rafik Neme, Judith Korb
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Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 82, Issue 5, Page 4235-4244, May 2026.ABSTRACT Aim To provide an overview of doctoral programs in nursing offered in Ibero‐American countries to inform regional collaboration and academic development. Design This study was a descriptive, document analysis. Methods A systematic mapping was conducted using data obtained from official university and program websites, national postgraduate ...
José Luís Guedes dos Santos +9 more
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Review of Development Economics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 695-715, May 2026.ABSTRACT In the present study, we examined the impact of the net effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on biodiversity and ecological footprint productivity in 21 Latin American countries over a 32‐year period from 1990 to 2022. Additionally, we propose the hypothesis of ecological transition (ETH), which conceptualizes the asymmetric impact on ...
Gonzalo H. Soto +2 more
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Illiterate but republicans. The world of the school book in the Colombian Caribbean, 1857-1886
Historia y Sociedad, 2012 This article deals with two instruments used in the process of civic education in the Colombian Caribbean during the second half of the nineteenth century and civics textbooks.
Luis Alarcón Meneses
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Female Education and Child Marriage
Review of Development Economics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 1032-1047, May 2026.ABSTRACT We examine why the education of young girls has historically lagged behind that of young boys across different countries. Using data from 105 countries during 1990–2020, we discover some evidence that is consistent with the idea that parents in many traditional societies reduce investments in the primary schooling of their daughters after they
Hasan A. Faruq
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The labor market effects of payroll taxes in a middle-income country: evidence from Colombia [PDF]
We use a panel of manufacturing plants from Colombia to analyze how the rise in payroll tax rates over the 1980’s and 1990’s affected the labor market.
Kugler, Adriana, Kugler, Maurice
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Internet, Inequality, and Regime Stability
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 73, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines the link between income inequality and political instability, focusing on the moderating role of Internet penetration. Using data from over 120 countries (1996–2020), we find a conditional relationship: in low‐Internet countries, higher inequality associates with lower instability, likely due to limited political awareness ...
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan +1 more
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Composition, Diversity, and Biomass of Scarabaeoidea in Tropical Dry Forests of the Colombian Caribbean Region. [PDF]
Neotrop EntomolTaboada-Verona C +2 more
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