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Aggregation and Insurance Mortality Estimation [PDF]
One goal of government health insurance programs is to improve health, yet little is known empirically about how important such government interventions can be in explaining health transitions.
Kristine A. Gonzalez +2 more
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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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Oribatid assemblies of tropical high mountains on some points of the “Gondwana-Bridge” – a case study [PDF]
, 2008 This work is the first part of a series of studies, which introduces the methodological possibilities of coenological and zoogeographical indication and – following the climate, vegetation and elevation zones – the pattern-describing analysis of the main
Balogh, P. +5 more
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Costa Rica During the Global Recession: Fiscal Stimulus with Tight Monetary Policy [PDF]
This paper shows that, in spite of a reasonably sized fiscal stimulus package, Costa Rica’s economy continues on a downward path, partly because fiscal policy is being offset by a tightening of monetary policy.
Jose Antonio Cordero
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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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Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: Youth, Crime, and the Responses of the State [PDF]
The paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador on the one hand, and the related security policies of the three states, on the other.
Peter Peetz
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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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