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AD-minister, 2016 The purpose of this paper is to provide a background to and guide for mainstreaming Disaster Risk Man-agement (DRM) into higher education and training institutions in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), with the aim of increasing awareness and ...
Indianna Minto-Coy, Lila Rao
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Market orientation and national homicide rates
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract We studied the influence of market orientation on national homicide rates. Multiple theoretical traditions equate the development and dominance of markets with higher crime rates. Some traditional sociological theoretical claims, however, suggest market expansion should reduce violence.
William Alex Pridemore, Meghan L. Rogers
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Jamaica, with its overfish marine resources, has become a major tilapia producer in Latin America led by a small number of large farms practicing tilapia culture with considerable commercial success.
Aiken, K.A. +3 more
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Dollars are a girl's best friend? Female tourists' sexual behaviour in the Caribbean [PDF]
, 2001 Though increasingly a focus of both political concern and academic research, ‘sex tourism’ is a difficult term to define. This article presents both quantitative and qualitative data on the sexual behaviour and attitudes of single and/or unaccompanied ...
Taylor, Jacqueline Sanchez
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Food, Affluence and the Consumption Basket*
Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, EarlyView.There are significant disparities across nations in incomes and spending. For example, consumers in the poorest countries spend more than half of their income on food, while in the richest, this is one‐tenth or less. We use data from the International Comparison Program for 176 countries to estimate cross‐country demand equations focusing on food and ...
Hai Long Vo, Kenneth W. Clements
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Studia Historica: Historia Moderna, 2011 Ni los intercambios realizados a través de Jamaica, conquistada a España en 1655, ni los privilegios disfrutados por la Compañía del Mar del Sur en virtud del Tratado del Asiento a partir de 1713 conllevaron la decadencia de la colonia mercantil ...
José Ignacio Martínez Ruiz
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Романтическое сознание А. Башлачева: «...На фронтах мировой поэзии призван годным и рядовым» [PDF]
, 1956 The Laws of Jamaica passed in the year 1958 Published by authorityhttps://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/jamaica/1114/thumbnail ...
Иванов, Д. И.
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Tax Planning Under Pressure: The Impact of Carbon Emissions Management Post‐Paris Agreement
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine how the Paris Agreement affects corporate tax planning across a global data set. We find that emissions‐reducing firms are associated with higher levels of tax planning than nonemissions‐reducing firms. The effect is stronger for firms facing tighter cost pass‐through constraints, such as operating in more competitive markets, with ...
Aonan (Sistine) Sun +3 more
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The Influence of Violent Crimes on Health in Jamaica: A Spurious Correlation and an Alternative Paradigm [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2012 Background: The discourse on crime and health in Jamaica is devoid of the influence of violent crimes on the nature of the health. The discourse on health recognizes that violent crime is a cause of mortality; however, health researchers have paid ...
Paul A. Bourne +2 more
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Race and religion in the Victorian age: Charles Kingsley, Governor Eyre and the Morant Bay Rising
, 2011 A consideration of the ideological issues surrounding the controversy of Governor Edward Eyre's draconian reaction to the Morant Bay rising in Jamaica in 1865, and of the responses to it of a number of mid-Victorian intellectuals, including Charles ...
Fraser, Robert
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