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Index of the cycle of money: the case of Costa Rica
Sapienza: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2023 The paper aims at determining, in a real-case scenario such as Costa Rica's economic system, how the theoretical basis of the money cycle plays out. The Money Cycle Index takes into account how well a country's economic structure is set up and what kind ...
Constantinos Challoumis
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Energy Strategy Reviews, 2020 Compliance with the Paris Agreement requires the transformation of national economies to meet net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by mid-century. To accomplish this, countries need to define long-term decarbonisation strategies with near- and mid-term ...
Guido Godínez-Zamora +8 more
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Environmental Health Insights, 2020 Pesticides are used globally in agriculture and pose a threat to the health of farmers, communities, and the environment. Smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries have generally a low socio-economic status and educational level ...
P. Staudacher +8 more
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State of the Art of Geodiversity, Geoconservation, and Geotourism in Costa Rica
Géosciences, 2020 Over the last decades, Costa Rica became established as a world-leading ecotourism destination due to its environmental policies and environmental awareness. The country is located in a dynamic region where the combination of tectonics and volcanism, and
A. Quesada-Román, D. Pérez-Umaña
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COVID-19 basic reproduction number and assessment of initial suppression policies in Costa Rica
Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena, 2020 SARS-COV-2 is the most recent from a series of emerging pathogens stressing national health systems. Initially restricted to Hubei province in China, COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-COV-2 has become pandemic, reaching almost every nation on our ...
L. F. Chaves +5 more
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Middle to Late Miocene Contractional Deformation in Costa Rica Triggered by Plate Geodynamics [PDF]
, 2017 Contractional deformation in Costa Rica is usually attributed to the subduction of the aseismic Cocos Ridge. In this work, we review the evidences for contraction in the middle to late Miocene, prior to the arrival of the Cocos Ridge at the Middle ...
Cascante, Monserrat +8 more
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Flash flood impacts of Hurricane Otto and hydrometeorological risk mapping in Costa Rica
, 2020 Flash floods are one of the most damaging natural hazards in tropics. Seasonal and extraordinary rainfall recurrently trigger flash floods in Costa Rica. Hurricane Otto was the first reported hurricane to have ever passed through Costa Rica.
Adolfo Quesada-Román +1 more
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Metallurgy In Costa-Rica [PDF]
, 1979 Anthropolog
Accola, Richard M., Lange, Frederick W.
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Trade liberalization and foreign direct investment: an applied general equilibrium model for Costa Rica [PDF]
, 1999 This paper quantifies the welfare impact of unilateral trade liberalization and computes the optimal tariff structure for Costa Rica in the presence of trade-policy-induced international capital flows and foreign capital taxation.
Abrego, Lisandro
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Carbon dioxide emissions intensity convergence: Evidence from central American countries [PDF]
, 2020 This paper extends the literature on the convergence of carbon dioxide emissions intensity and its determinants (energy intensity and the carbonization index) for six Central American countries over the period 1971 to 2014.
Apergis, Nicholas, Payne, James
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