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Climate Change and Women's Barriers to Credit: Global Firm‐Level Analysis of Gender Bias and Climate Risk Policy Thresholds

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this present study is to assess how climate risk mitigates the positive incidence of the female CEOs on credit access. Using the Climate Physical Risk Index (CPRI), we perform an empirical analysis on firm‐level data from over 38,500 firms in 130 countries observed over the period 2006–2020. We find that female entrepreneurs are
Simplice A. Asongu, Cherif Abdramane
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V.—New species of Heterocera from Costa Rica—IV [PDF]

, 1911
William Schaus
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Stairway to impact or highway to failure? A cognitive perspective on business model design processes in nascent sustainable ventures

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Sustainable new ventures seeking to tackle grand challenges such as climate change or biodiversity loss through new business models face the difficult task of reconciling social and ecological goals with profit. To provide a better understanding of how founders balance such tensions and develop viable business models, this ...
Eduard Esau, Christina Lara Kannegießer, Manuel Reppmann, Erk P. Piening, Laura Marie Edinger‐Schons   +4 more
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Costa Rica: Selected Issues

IMF Staff Country Reports, 2002
This Selected Issues paper examines recent economic developments and economic growth in Costa Rica. The paper highlights that real GDP growth of Costa Rica slowed to 1.7 percent, from more than 8 percent a year in 1998–99, reflecting in part deterioration in the terms of trade, the end of the construction phase of a large foreign direct investment ...
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The Biased Interaction Game: A System Theoretic Approach to the Emergence of Inequality, Hierarchy, and the Implications for the Likelihood of Cooperation

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The emergence of cooperation in natural selection has been successfully studied using game theory and, despite the underlying selfish nature of the evolutionary process, a spectrum of plausible mechanisms have been proposed to determine the conditions under which cooperative behaviour is likely to occur.
Phil Mercy, Martin Neil
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XII.—New species of Heterocera from Costa Rica.—IX [PDF]

, 1911
William Schaus
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Cancer in Costa Rica.

Cancer research, 1989
UCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ciencias de la Salud::Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud (INISA)
Sierra Ramos, Rafaela, Maxwell Parkin, Donald, Muñoz Leiva, Georgina   +2 more
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Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica

Población y Salud en Mesoamérica, 2006
This document is the executive summary of a detailed document entitled, Nicaraguan Migrants and Poverty in Costa Rica, which was prepared for the World Bank in 2006. The more detailed background paper from which this summary is derived was commissioned as a background paper in preparation for an upcoming poverty mission by the World Bank to Costa Rica.
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Choice Experiments in Enviromental Impact Assessment: The Toro 3 Hydroelectric Project and the Recreo Verde Tourist Center in Costa Rica [PDF]

Choice experiments, a stated preference valuation method, are proposed as a tool to assign monetary values to environmental externalities during the ex-ante stages of environmental impact assessment.
Alpízar, Francisco, Carías Vega , Dora
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A new species of Lomanoxia Martínez from Costa Rica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) [PDF]

, 2003
A new species of Lomanoxia Martínez is described from Costa Rica: L. canthonopsis Skelley and Howden. This represents the first member of the genus reported from Central America.
Howden, Henry F., Skelley, Paul E.
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