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Ideas y Valores, 2019
Los siguientes textos fueron escritos por los participantes del work-shop “Latin America in View”, organizado por Isabella Vergara y Carlos Colmenares en la Universidad de California, Irvine, el 24 de abril de 2019, y gestionado por la profesora Adriana ...
Work-shop Latin America in View
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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, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
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Labor productivity and remuneration across Mexico's manufacturing industry: A spatial approach

Estudios Económicos
This document investigates the relationship between wages and labor productivity in Mexico, considering the territorial dimension and, within it, the impact that the productivity of neighboring entities has on local wages, given the geographical ...
Jesús Antonio López Cabrera, Enrique González Mata, René Cabral Torres   +2 more
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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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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, Vanessa Ormeño‐Candelario, Xueli Chen   +2 more
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Latin America

Survival
Notes : Ce document appartient à un classeur d’archives élaboré par l’auteur et conservé en l’état. Ce classeur est composé en majorité de documents, publiés entre 1964 et 1974, relatifs à ses activités d'écrivain et de conférencier. Intitulé ''Actividad 1964-197.'', le classeur est divisé en 4 parties au moyen d’intercalaires : 1) ''Conferencias'', 2)
Luis Alfonso, Diez, Diez, Luis Alfonso
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A picture is worth a thousand words: Portraying language learning experiences in a bilingual school in Honduras

Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal, 2017
This qualitative study explored the experience of students learning English in an early partial one-way immersion program in Honduras. While immersion research is well-established in various parts of the world, scarce research has focused on programs in ...
Esther Bettney
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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, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
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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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The Role of Certifications in Improving Household Food Security Among Peruvian Farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving global food security requires sustainable transformations in agri‐food systems. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) such as Organic and Fairtrade aim to internalize certain social and environmental costs while promoting more equitable value distribution, improved market access, and sustainable production practices.
Lisa‐Marie Schulte, Awudu Abdulai
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