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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Aplicación de la Teoría Situacional de los Públicos al primer proceso de voto en el exterior para Costa Rica: Lecciones para las relaciones públicas internacionales y la diplomacia pública [PDF]
, 2015 Using information gathered from 40 interviews with Costa Ricans who live abroad (some who decided to vote in the newly granted external voting right and others who did not vote in the Costa Rican National Elections of 2014), the variables that impacted ...
Bravo, Vanessa
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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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Innovation, R&D and Productivity in the Costa Rican ICT Sector: A Case Study [PDF]
This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the relative ...
John Hewitt, Ricardo Monges-Gonzalez
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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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A source-differentiated analysis of tropical fresh fruit imports [PDF]
A source-differentiated Almost Ideal Demand System model is used to analyze U.S. demand for the major tropical fresh fruit imports from different countries of origin.
Fonsah, Esendugue Greg +2 more
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Thermocline topography, horizontal currents and “ridging” in the Eastern Tropical Pacific [PDF]
, 1958 ENGLISH: A primary objective of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission is a knowledge of the ecology of tunas which inhabit the Eastern Tropical Pacific. This paper presents some results of the work in physical oceanography, which, it is hoped, will
Cromwell, Townsend
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Gobierno Corporativo en Costa Rica [PDF]
(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) En este trabajo se analizan las prácticas de conducción empresarial en Costa Rica. En primer lugar, se calculan las medidas de conducción empresarial constitutivas empleando datos específicos de 87 compañías ...
Edgar Robles C., Gilberto E. Arce
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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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Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management: the tarcoles river basin, Costa Rica [PDF]
This paper describes and analyzes the effort to institute river basin management in the Tárcoles basin of Costa Rica. Located in west-central Costa Rica, the Tárcoles basin represents 4.2 percent of the nation's total land area, but is home to half the ...
Ballestero, Maureen +3 more
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