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The Latin American Efficiency Gap [PDF]
The average Latin American country produces about 1 fifth of the output per worker of the US. What are the sources of these enormous income gaps? I report development-accounting results for Latin America. On average Latin America's overall physical and human capital endowment relative to the USA is essentially identical to Latin America's efficiency ...
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ABSTRACT We utilize a rich dataset of manufacturing firms to investigate the heterogeneous effects of ISO 14001 on the financial performance of certified firms. We employ machine learning techniques, specifically causal tree and causal forest, to uncover these effects. Our findings reveal consistently positive average effects of ISO 14001 certification
Xiaoliu Xu, Abdoul G. Sam
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Church and State in Latin America. A History of Politico-Ecclesiastical Relations [PDF]
W. H. Callicott
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Racial Inequality in the Uruguayan Labor Market:An analysis of wage differentials between Afrodescendants and whites. [PDF]
Latin America is a region of sharp inequalities that are far from ethnically blind. In particular, there exists a significant socioeconomic gap between Latin Americans of European and the Afrodescendant and Indigenouos populations.
Marisa Bucheli, Rafael Porzecanski
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ABSTRACT This study aims to uncover the empirical relationship between environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and the growth of 19,956 unlisted firms in the East Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region. While the existing literature focuses on ESG performance in listed firms, there is a gap in understanding the growth dynamics of unlisted ...
Nosheen Rasool+3 more
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On the basis of biographical interviews Sandra GRUNER DOMIĆ examines the migration of Latin American women to Germany. She tries to reconstruct the actions and decisions of the women in order to make them comprehensible.
Julia Simonson
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Play Selection in the Department of Speech and Drama at Pan American University in the 1970s and 1980s: Twenty Years of Excluding Latino Plays [PDF]
The theatre program at the University of Texas-Pan American has a long history of excluding Latino plays from its production seasons, even though the university is located near the Mexican border and the majority of its students are Mexican American. The
Wiley, Eric
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Latin American epidemiology [PDF]
Cesar G. Victora, Laura C. Rodrigues
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Transparency or Map‐Washing? Digital Geospatial Visualisation Tools in the Palm Oil Industry
ABSTRACT We introduce the notion of map‐washing and ask whether digital geospatial visualisation (DGV) tools distort information or provide greater supply chain transparency. Map‐washing explains a process of disclosing spatial information that has little or no value to the intended users, but rather creates, conforms to or distorts a particular ...
Rory Padfield+5 more
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