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A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America
, 2018 Fil: Santos, Maria Emma. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - Bahia Blanca. Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas y Sociales del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Economia.
María Emma Santos, Pablo Villatoro
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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La rhétorique comme misdirection : l’art du bien parler et les tours de magie
Pallas, 2013 This contribution bears on the metaphor of the conjurer applied to rhetoric. The art of delusion was not transmitted through writings ; it can therefore be reconstituted only in an indirect way by means of occasional quotations or metaphors.
Massimo Manca
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The reality of scientific research in Latin America; an insider’s perspective
Cell stress & chaperones (Print), 2017 There is tremendous disparity in scientific productivity among nations, particularly in Latin America. At first sight, this could be linked to the relative economic health of the different countries of the region, but even large and relatively rich Latin
D. Ciocca, G. Delgado
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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[Review of] Raymond T. Smith, ed. Kinship Ideology and Practice in Latin America [PDF]
, 1986 Kinship Ideology and Practice in Latin America is a collection of papers resulting from two conferences sponsored by the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.
Whiteford, Michael B.
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Authorities’ Fiscal Forecasts in Latin America: Are they Optimistic? [PDF]
, 2023 Metodij Hadzi‐Vaskov +3 more
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Characterizing commercial oil palm expansion in Latin America: land use change and trade
, 2017 Commodity crop expansion has increased with the globalization of production systems and consumer demand, linking distant socio-ecological systems. Oil palm plantations are expanding in the tropics to satisfy growing oilseed and biofuel markets, and much ...
P. Furumo, T. Aide
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li +2 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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