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The Impacts of Weather Variability and Shocks on Farmers and Indigenous Peoples' Consumption: Evidence From Panama

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Weather variability and shocks pose significant challenges for tropical developing countries, making it crucial to understand their effects on consumption to address the existing deficiencies among the most vulnerable groups. This study examines the impact of weather variability and shocks on household consumption in Panama, utilizing repeated
Ambar Lineth Chavez Espinosa   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shocks and coffee : lessons from Nicaragua [PDF]

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Using household level panel data from Nicaragua, this paper explores the impact of the recent coffee crisis on rural households engaged in coffee production, and coffee labor work. Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, a number of findings
Vakis, Renos   +2 more
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Can Regional Integration Survive De‐Globalisation? An Empirical Investigation Focusing on Productivity and Innovation

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Against a general trend towards de‐globalisation, we investigate the influence of regional integration processes among countries—viewed as the consequence of political/institutional choices, which are typically omitted from empirical analysis—on labour productivity and innovation.
Massimiliano Tani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Timing of Trade Adjustment: Evidence From Financial and Labor Frictions

open access: yesReview of International Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how financial development and labor‐market rigidity in exporting countries shape the timing of trade adjustment following economic integration agreements (EIAs), and how the two interact. Using a piecewise linear trend specification, the analysis traces how export adjustment evolves around agreement entry and shows that ...
Jae Wook Jung
wiley   +1 more source

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Policy and Political Regime Change in Central America

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does democracy deliver more inclusive and transparent social policy in low‐capacity states? And how does democratic backsliding reshape social policy? Drawing on a comparative analysis of El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, we examine how regime change and political ideology are associated with patterns of social policy access and ...
Juliana Martínez Franzoni   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Comparative Effectiveness of Vector Control Approaches for Dengue: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Network Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesTropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Dengue vector control plays an important role in reducing the burden of dengue infection. Conventional meta‐analysis can only include interventions that can be directly compared. Hence, this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of all interventions for dengue vector control directly and indirectly through a multilevel Bayesian ...
Gary K. K. Low   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Liberalizing Trade, and its Impact on Poverty and Inequality in Nicaragua [PDF]

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The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations stalled in 2008 owing in no small degree to a lack of agreement on the terms of substantially reducing trade-distorting support for agricultural products and to what extent this would be beneficial to ...
Vos, Rob, Sanchez, Marco V.
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