Fairtrade and market failures in agricultural commodity markets [PDF]
This paper concerns an NGO intervention in agricultural commodity markets known as Fairtrade. Fairtrade pays producers a minimum unit price and provides capacity building support to member cooperative organizations.
Ronchi, Loraine
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Sea Turtle Response to Climate Change: Analyzing Current and Predicting Future Impacts on Populations, Habitat, and Prey Populations [PDF]
, 2016 With the prediction of devastating global climate change effects for the near future, scientists are expanding their research and understanding of some of the most severely affected organisms.
Golden, Eva J
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South-South Migration: The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigrants on Earnings, Inequality and Poverty in Costa Rica [PDF]
More than half of those who emigrate from developing countries move to other developing countries, yet there have been few studies of the impact of this South-South migration. In this paper, we examine the impact of migration from one developing country,
Gindling, T. H.
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Hydromorphus, H. concolor, H. dunni [PDF]
, 1990 Number of Pages: 2Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Villa, Jaime D.
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El elefante birmano de Uriel Quesada: una trasgresión al imaginario nacional
Káñina, 2006 Partiendo de la investigación de Carlos Sandoval sobre la inscripción del otro nicaragüense en la sociedad costarricense, se explora cómo el cuento "El elefante birmano" de Uriel Quesada trastoca las metáforas sobre la inmigración del imaginario ...
Verónica Ríos Quesada
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From Coffee Beans to Microchips: Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Costa Rica [PDF]
During the early 1980s Costa Rica experienced its worst economic crisis since World War II, which led to the abandonment of the import substitution model of development adopted in the 1960s.
Ferreira, Gustavo F.C.
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Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica [PDF]
, 2004 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 ...
Gindling, Tim, Terrell, Katherine
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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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Giving Voice to the Voiceless [PDF]
, 2018 The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of matriculated, full time college students from a medium-sized Catholic, Liberal Arts College in the Northeast who identify as multi-racial or multi-ethnic, specifically identifying as coming ...
Palmer, Victoria L.
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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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