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Living Wages in Latin America: An Assessment of Disparities and a Stakeholder Roadmap for Action
ABSTRACT A living wage (LW) refers to the salary that would be sufficient to cover the costs of a decent living standard for the employee and his family in a specific place. The topic is scarcely discussed in Latin American countries, which could benefit from it since the population of these countries faces several social and economic challenges, such ...
Adriana Cristina Ferreira Caldana+6 more
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The cost and performance of paid agricultural extension services : the case of agricultural technology transfer in Nicaragua [PDF]
Budgets for extension services have been reduced in many countries. One response to these reductions in public services in some countries has been to privatize extension services - with extension services provided for a fee, by either public agencies or ...
Dinar, Ariel, Keynan, Gabriel
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Abstract Although autocracies increasingly learn how to integrate digital technologies into their covert repression toolbox, it remains unclear under which conditions they succeed in doing so. While some technologically developed autocracies seldom use covert repression, other technologically underdeveloped autocracies apply significantly more covert ...
Ildar Daminov
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Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Ratios as Environmental Indicators: Anomalous Results from Carbonate Shells from Beach Sediments of Lake Managua, Nicaragua [PDF]
Jon N. Weber
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Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: Youth, Crime, and the Responses of the State [PDF]
The paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador on the one hand, and the related security policies of the three states, on the other.
Peter Peetz
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Ethnicity and Elections: Electoral Context Affects Parties' Use of Ethnic References
Abstract Links to specific ethnic groups constitute a defining feature of ethnic parties. Yet, whether and how references to ethnic identities appear in ethnic parties' political communication often remains unstudied despite the promise it carries.
Frederik Gremler, Lea Haiges
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Patrimonio cultural arqueológico del territorio Rama y Kriol
En este número de Wani son presentados los resultados obtenidos en la elaboración de un diagnóstico sobre el patrimonio arqueológico del territorio indígena Rama y Kriol, en la Región Autónoma Costa Caribe Sur (RACCS). Para esto se levantó un inventario
Donald H. Byers+4 more
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New Subspecies of Birds from the Lowland Pine Savanna of Northeastern Nicaragua [PDF]
Thomas R. Howell
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