Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica [PDF]
The classic dual economy models of developing countries hold minimum wages (among other institutions) accountable for persistent dualism. They note that applying or enforcing minimum wage laws in only one sector of the economy will create wage ...
Katherine Terrell, T. H. Gindling
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Does Eco-Certification Have Environmental Benefits? Organic Coffee in Costa Rica [PDF]
Eco-certification of coffee, timber and other high-value agricultural commodities is increasingly widespread. In principle, it can improve commodity producers’ environmental performance, even in countries where state regulation is weak. However, evidence
Blackman, Allen, Naranjo, Maria A.
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User Financing in a National Payments for Environmental Services Program: Costa Rican Hydropower [PDF]
National government-funded payments for environmental services (PES) programs often lack sustainable financing and fail to target payments to providers of important environmental services.
Blackman, Allen, Woodward, Richard T.
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Conceptos teóricos de Elaine Showalter en el texto Cuentos de mi Tía Panchita de Carmen Lyra
Káñina, 2005 Este artículo analiza relatos de Cuentos de mi Tía Panchita utilizando los preceptos teóricos de la feminista estadounidense Elaine Showalter. Específicamente, las características de las fases históricas literarias conocidas como la fase feminista y la ...
Gilda Pacheco Acuña
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Actualidades Investigativas en EducaciónTechnical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Costa Rica is considered as an important alternative for the insertion of the young population into the labor market.
Irina Rommel +2 more
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Institutional Change, Obsolescing Legitimacy, and Multinational Corporations: The Case of the Central American Banana Industry [PDF]
This paper studies the practice of integration of influential host country actors to a multinational corporation as a strategy to decrease problems of legitimacy to the foreign firm before the host country's society.
Bucheli, Marcelo, Kim, Min-Young
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Review of geographical stocks of tropical dolphins (Stenella spp. and Delphinus delphis) in the eastern Pacific [PDF]
, 1985 Information on geographical variation is reviewed for Stenella attenuata, S. longirostris, S. coeruleoalba, and Delphinus delphis in the eastern tropical Pacific, and boundaries for potential management units are proposed.
Cass, Virginia L. +3 more
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La transformación de una identidad o cómo lanzar una vaca del Olimpo
Káñina, 2006 Lisímaco Chavarría dedicó Manojo de guarias (1913) a retratar elementos del universo costarricense, justo cuando el país buscaba su identidad. Es comprensible, entonces, que dedique un poema a "La vaca", eterna presencia en los campos ticos. Por su parte,
Melvin Campos Ocampo
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Postrary of homosexuality and homophobia in Costa Rican literature
, 2018 La literatura, como otras artes, es una expresión de la humanidad, de su día a día, de sus miedos e ilusiones, de su historia pasada, presente y futura. Ella permite vestir los zapatos de otros y ver de cerca diferentes vidas y puntos de vista. En el presente ensayo se muestra un análisis/opinión sobre extractos de literatura erótica, en especial ...
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Fuel Tax Incidence in Developing Countries: The Case of Costa Rica [PDF]
Although fuel taxes are a practical means of curbing vehicular air pollution, congestion, and accidents in developing countries--all of which are typically major problems--they are often opposed on distributional grounds.
Alpizar, Francisco +2 more
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