Discourses on violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua: Social Perceptions in Everyday Life [PDF]
, 2008 Huhn S. Discourses on violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua: Social Perceptions in Everyday Life. GIGA Working Papers. Vol 81. Hamburg: GIGA; 2008.Central America has the reputation of being a violent region with high crime rates, youth gangs,
Huhn, Sebastian
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Guardians Under Siege: Civil Society Access and Reform of the UN Human Rights Council
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how restrictions on civil society participation at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) undermine the institution's effectiveness. Through stakeholder interviews and analysis of recent developments, we show that civil society engagement does not merely fulfil a democratic aspiration, but it is an operational ...
Inés M. Pousadela, Samuel King
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Impact Is Not Enough: Image and CCT Sustainability in Nicaragua [PDF]
The significance of conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs) has grown in recent years, particularly in Latin America. Nicaragua?s CCT, the Red de Protección Social (RPS), had a short life span (2000?2006).
Charity Moore
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Double‐Edged Bandwagon Effects in International Law—Rationalist and Behavioral Explanations
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines bandwagon effects in international law by integrating rationalist and behavioral perspectives. While the diffusion of treaties and norms has often been understood as a progressive process leading to broader participation and compliance, states also imitate negative examples, resulting in treaty withdrawals, non‐compliance,
Anne van Aaken
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Compromisos a asumir por Nicaragua al adherirse al TM80
, 2010 ALADI. Comité de Representantes.
ALADI. Comité de Representantes. Grupo de Trabajo sobre Solicitud de Adhesión de la República de Nicaragua
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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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Captured participatory institutions: Theory and evidence from Venezuela's Consejos Comunales
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Can participatory institutions (PIs) facilitate development when captured by the government? We propose an original theoretical framework to investigate how changing incumbent priorities can shape the developmental and political effects of captured PIs.
Jared Abbott, Jose Morales‐Arilla
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Side‐selling in coffee cooperatives: Insights from cooperative and non‐cooperative farmers in Mexico
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates side‐selling in Mexican coffee cooperatives, seeking to answer what drives side‐selling, what drives the expected share side‐sold and what non‐cooperative farmers perceive about side‐selling. Our conceptual framework, a contribution to this literature, proposes that farmers’ economic pressure, coffee quality and ...
Carlos Omar Trejo‑Pech +1 more
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Global Apparel Value Chain in the Post‐MFA Era: Exploring Bangladesh's Competitive Edge
Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study revisits Bangladesh's competitive edge by examining patterns of global apparel trade during the post‐Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MFA) era using a large bilateral panel of 27 leading apparel exporters trading with 163 destinations with coverage of 90% of the world apparel exports.
Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakhruzzaman
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