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Development and Change, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 600-622, May 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT This article considers the transformative potential of conditional cash transfers to address intergenerational poverty. Drawing on empirical evidence collected through qualitative research in the northeast of Brazil, it traces notions of intergenerational change and continuity amongst young recipients of the Bolsa Família programme (BFP) and ...
Hayley Jones
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Process evaluation of the Disability Allowance programme in the Maldives
International Social Security Review, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 79-105, January/March 2022., 2022 Abstract Limited evidence on the design and implementation of social protection programmes for people with disabilities in low‐ and middle‐income countries constrains understanding of how their impacts could be improved. The Disability Allowance programme in the Maldives is a non means‐tested, monthly cash transfer targeting people with disabilities ...
Shaffa Hameed +3 more
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Making Friends, Building Roads: Chinese Entrepreneurship and the Search for Reliability in Angola
American Anthropologist, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 343-354, June 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Based on fieldwork conducted in 2013–2014 with a provincial‐level Chinese state‐owned construction firm in Luanda, this article examines how Chinese businesses attempted to expand in the aftermath of a booming period of Angolan postwar reconstruction. Chinese entrepreneurs found that business could only be done with the help of local mediators
Cheryl Mei‐ting Schmitz
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Ethnography In‐Sight: Spiraling through Fieldwork
, 2022 The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, Page 9-15, June 2022.
Jan Hoffman French
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Trabalho, subsistência e dinheiro: modos criativos na economia mbya (guarani) contemporânea
Horizontes Antropológicos, 2016 Resumo No presente artigo pretendo apresentar práticas contemporâneas de subsistência adotadas por populações mbya (guarani) no Sul e Sudeste do Brasil, a partir de uma abordagem que articula economia e política, bem como alguns aspectos do xamanismo e ...
Elizabeth Pissolato
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iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2016 Plant functional traits have been recognized as important factors related to the ecological strategies of species in forest ecosystems. We examined the relationships between functional traits and both tree species performance and environmental conditions
Missio Francieli de F +9 more
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Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 29, Issue 6, Page 992-1007, June 2020., 2020 Abstract Aim Intraspecific trait variation (ITV) within natural plant communities can be large, influencing local ecological processes and dynamics. Here, we shed light on how ITV in vegetative and floral traits responds to large‐scale abiotic and biotic gradients (i.e., climate and species richness). Specifically, we tested whether associations of ITV
Jonas Kuppler +36 more
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Critique of Anthropology, 2007 ■ For decades, social scientists have seen money and religion in Brazil as two incompatible terms. In contrast, this article shows how money has always been present in Brazilian popular religion. This argument leads to a second point: a criticism of the interpretation of Brazilian Neo-Pentecostal churches as `money fetishists', religions of ...
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"Trabalho", "mudança de vida" e "prosperidade" entre fiéis da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus
Religião e Sociedade, 2007 Nos anos 90, com a implementação do "mercado livre" pelo governo Collor, noções como "produtividade" e "resultados" ganham centralidade na vida econômica brasileira. Nessa mesma época, é notório, nas classes trabalhadoras, o aumento do número de fiéis da
Diana Nogueira de Oliveira Lima
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Prisma Jurídico, 2002 By imposition of the international communities and because of the modern world's globalization a special Law, which aims at restraining the actions of laundering practitioners, was edited in 1998.
Marcos José Maschietto
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