Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis for Coffee Farms in Puerto Rico [PDF]
Coffee production in Puerto Rico is labor intensive since harvest is done by hand for quality and topography conditions. Färe's nonparametric approach was used to estimate technical, allocative, scale and overall efficiency measures for coffee farms in ...
Featherstone, Allen M. +1 more
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Desconciertos en un jardín tropical: la pérdida de la inocencia o la caída de las máscaras
Káñina, 2006 Este artículo explora, según los modelos epistemológicos de la posmodernidad, el valor testimonial de la novela de Magda Zavala: Desconciertos en un jardín tropical, a partir del cronotopo de la democracia para desenmascarar el discurso oficial, las ...
Peggy von Mayer Chaves
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Letras, 2013 Las novelas Te llevaré en mis ojos de Rodolfo Arias y Limón Reggae de Anacristina Rossi representan tanto las guerras como la posguerra en Centroamérica.
Verónica Ríos Quesada
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Public Debt, Fiscal Solvency, and Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Latin America: The Cases of Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico [PDF]
The ratios of public debt as a share of GDP of Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico were 12 percentage points higher on average during the period 1996-2005 than in the period 1990-1995. Costa Rica's debt ratio remained stable but at a high level near 50 percent.
Mendoza, Enrique G., Oviedo, P. Marcelo
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Measuring and understanding labor exploitation on a sample of workers in the Costa Rican fishing industry. [PDF]
PLoS OneAbeyta S, Moton LN, Dank M.
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Carbon Dynamics and Land-use Choices: Building a Regional-scale Multidisciplinary Model [PDF]
Policy enabling tropical forests to approach their potential contribution to global-climate-change mitigation requires forecasts of land use and carbon storage on a large scale over long periods.
Alexander Pfaff +3 more
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Substance use risk screening and associated factors among Costa Rican secondary students: a nationally representative analysis. [PDF]
Front Public HealthLopez-Soto A +3 more
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Large-Scale Forest Restoration Accompanied by Biodiversity Recovery in Costa Rica's Redistributive Payment for Ecosystem Service Program. [PDF]
Glob Chang BiolDelgado GL +15 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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A survey of Brevipalpus mite species and their predators in Costa Rican citrus and coffee plantations. [PDF]
Exp Appl AcarolAguilar-Piedra H +3 more
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