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Changes in Returns to Education in Latin America: the Role of Demand and Supply of Skills [PDF]
Changes in the relative wages of workers with different amounts of education have profound implications for developing countries, where initial levels of inequality are often very high.
Carolina Sanchez-Paramo +2 more
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Short but not sweet - new evidence on short duration morbidities from India [PDF]
India spends 6 percent of its GDP on health-three times the amount spent by Indonesia and twice that of China-and spending on non-chronic morbidities is three times that of chronic illnesses.
Das, Jishnu, Sanchez-Paramo, Carolina
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Taxonomía y distribución de Nathalis (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) en Colombia
En Colombia, Nathalis comprende dos especies descritas: N. iole y N. plauta. Autores previos no describieron detalladamente su distribución meridional y fallaron en la diferenciación de ambas especies basado en sus caracteres genitales.
Hannier W Pulido-B +2 more
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The Paramo Fire Atlas: quantifying burned area and trends across the Tropical Andes
The paramo ecosystem is vital for biodiversity conservation and water regulation. Despite fire being a known disturbance agent in this ecosystem, little is known about the frequency and trends in these high-elevation landscapes. To address this knowledge
Laura Obando-Cabrera +4 more
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Does eurosclerosis matter ? - institutional reform and labor market performance in Central and Eastern European countries in the 1990s [PDF]
This paper examines the labor market dynamics of six CEE countries over the last 10 years, paying special attention to the nature of labor market institutions these countries have adopted and their impact on labor market performance.
Riboud, Michelle +2 more
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Native fruits from the Peruvian Andes, such as ushpa (Vaccinium floribundum Kunth) and sachon (Hesperomeles obtusifolia (Pers.) Lindl.), grow in high-altitude environments that favor the accumulation of bioactive compounds.
Vicente Amirpasha Tirado-Kulieva +3 more
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The Gas Content in Galactic Disks: Correlation with Kinematics
We consider the relationship between the total HI mass in late-type galaxies and the kinematic properties of their disks. The mass $M_HI$ for galaxies with a wide variety of properties, from dwarf dIrr galaxies with active star formation to giant low ...
A. A. Smirnova +60 more
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Some benefits of reducing inflation in transition economies [PDF]
We analyse welfare effects of the interactions between the tax system and inflation in Poland and in Ukraine, using the framework developed by Feldstein (1997, 1999). This approach stresses the fact that inflation increases distortions created by the tax
Blaszkiewicz, Monika +4 more
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