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Vulnerability of marine megafauna to global at‐sea anthropogenic threats

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract Marine megafauna species are affected by a wide range of anthropogenic threats. To evaluate the risk of such threats, species’ vulnerability to each threat must first be determined. We build on the existing threats classification scheme and ranking system of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened ...
Michelle VanCompernolle   +309 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do the Poor Benefit from Public Spending? A Look at the Evidence [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper shows that public spending on basic services, to wit, primary and secondary education and basic health care, benefit the poor; while the non-poor are the principal beneficiaries of tertiary and education subsidies and hospital spending.
John Gafar
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Trafficking in Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
[Excerpt] Trafficking in persons (TIP) for the purpose of exploitation is a lucrative criminal activity that is of major concern to the United States and the international community. According to the most recent U.S.
Ribando Seelke, Clare
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Detected Shifts Towards Drought‐Adaptive Strategies in the Amazon Forest Over the Last Four Decades

open access: yesGlobal Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 2, February 2026.
Amazon forests are facing hotter, drier conditions, and we used 40 years of satellite data to look for early signs of ecological change. Combining satellite observations with leaf measurements from more than 3000 trees, we show that many forests now show smaller dry‐season fluctuations in canopy colour—especially in the southern and eastern Amazon ...
Milton Barbosa   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guyana [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Review of the Red Cross, 1976
openaire   +1 more source

Foreign Exchange Controls, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, and the Black Market Premium [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the relationship between the official and parallel exchange rates, in three Caribbean countries, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad, during the 1985-1993 period using cointegration, Granger causality, and reduced form methods.
Mohsen Fardmanesh, Seymour Douglas
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PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE CARIBBEAN: A MEASURE OF KEY COMPONENTS [PDF]

open access: yes
Productivity growth is decomposed into two components: technical change and efficiency change. This assesses their relative importance to the international competitiveness of the agricultural sectors of selected Caribbean countries.
Hutchinson, Sharon D., Langham, Max R.
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O que pretende o Brasil na Guiana Essequibo?

open access: yesMeridiano 47, 2017
The article discusses the hydropower project to be developed on the Mazaruni River, in Guyana, which seeks to export energy to Brazil. Mazaruni River is located in the Esequibo region, historically claimed by Venezuela.
Roberta Rodrigues Marques da Silva
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Coping with the fallout for preference-receiving countries from EU sugar reform. [PDF]

open access: yes
Developing countries can produce sugar at much lower cost than in the EU, yet reform of the EU sugar policy will result in both winners and losers among them. This is because the EU is both an exporter and importer of sugar. Sugar policy reform will mean
Alan Matthews, Hannah Chalplin
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