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Cityness and African Urban Development [PDF]
This paper explores one possible argument for how to respond to the epistemic troubles in the production of knowledge about urban Africa. The problem I have in mind is the preponderance of policy-oriented research on the development challenges and ...
Pieterse, Edgar
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More than a Reductio: Plato's Method in the Parmenides and Lysis [PDF]
, 2019 Plato’s Parmenides and Lysis have a surprising amount in common from a methodological standpoint. Both systematically employ a method that I call ‘exploring both sides’, a philosophical method for encouraging further inquiry and comprehensively ...
Rodriguez, Evan
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.This study addressed how a senior research thesis is perceived by undergraduate students. It assessed students' perception of research skills, epistemological beliefs, and career goals in Biochemistry (science) and BDC (science‐business) students. Completing a thesis improved confidence in research skills, resilience, scientific identity, closed gender‐
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Nature Protection: the FBCN and Conservation Initiatives in Brazil, 1958-1992
Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña, 2013 The text evaluates the trajectory of the Fundação Brasileira para a Conservação da Natureza (FBCN, Brazilian Foundation for Nature Conservation).
José Luiz de Andrade Franco +1 more
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Tradition and Political Economy in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (18th century)
Ибероамериканские тетрадиThe legal traditions of the Spanish Empire, which had certain particularities but were always in line with the imperial Catholic culture, played a major role in the development and expansion of the Hispanic world in the Ancien Régime.
J. R. Bravo
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An account of new developmentalism and its structuralist macroeconomics
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2011 This is a personal account of the definition of "new developmentalism" - a national development strategy alternative to the Washington consensus -, and of a "structuralist development macroeconomics": the sum of models that justifies theoretically that ...
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
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10-01 "Climate-Resilient Industrial Development Paths: Design Principles and Alternative Models" [PDF]
Global climate change is here. According to recent scientific reports, the earth has warmed by nearly half a degree centigrade over the last twenty five years.
Lyuba Zarsky
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Naked cuticle is essential for Drosophila wing development beyond Wingless signaling
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Naked cuticle (Nkd), a Wnt signaling inhibitor, assumes extensive roles in Drosophila wing development. Overexpressing Nkd causes smaller, crumpled wings, while also perturbing multiple signaling pathways and developmental genes. A specific region (R1S) is critical for Nkd's function as a signaling integrator, offering new insights for studying its ...
Rui Wang, Ping Wang
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From old to new developmentalism in latin America [PDF]
The failure of the Washington Consensus and of macroeconomic policies based onhigh interest rates and non-competitive exchange rates to generate economic growthprompted Latin America to formulate national development strategies. Newdevelopmentalism is an
Pereira, Luiz Carlos Bresser
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Empowering NGOs: The Microcredit Movement Through Foucault's Notion of Dispositif [PDF]
, 2001 This article develops a critical response to initiatives such as microcredit. The critical tools for understanding the shifts in the development project need to be extended beyond those approaches that center on economic relations.
Brigg, Morgan
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