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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda [PDF]
In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household ...
Jennifer Hunt
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The sound formation of robust environmental policies is increasingly important for low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) to achieve their national objectives and international commitments. However, policy implementation can be complex, and environmental policies may not be prioritised given other critical socio‐economic development issues ...
Rebecca K. M. Clube, Julia Tomei
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom [PDF]
Conventional wisdom states that fiscal policy redistributes little in Latin America. Lower tax revenues and – above all – lower and less progressive transfers have been identified as the main cause.
Nora Lustig
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
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Tracking Chart 2004 GFSI, Peru 03005863C [PDF]
, 2004 FLA_2004_GFSI_TC_Peru_03005863C.pdf: 17 downloads, before Oct.
Fair Labor Association
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This ethnographic study explores the emotional labor and self‐care strategies of feminist abortion acompañantes in Northern Mexico. Operating within restrictive legal environments, acompañantes provide crucial support for self‐managed medication abortions (SMAs), engaging in significant, often invisible, emotional labor.
Bruna Alvarez, Suzanne Veldhuis
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Higher Education Decisions in Peru: On the Role of Financial Constraints, Skills, and Family Background [PDF]
"This paper analyzes the relative importance of short term financial constraints vis a vis skills and other background factors affecting schooling decisions when explaining access to higher education in Peru.
Gustavo Yamada, Juan Castro, Omar Arias
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Machine Learning Approaches to Forecast the Realized Volatility of Crude Oil Prices
Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents an evaluation of the accuracy of machine learning (ML) techniques in forecasting the realized volatility of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices. We compare several ML algorithms, including regularization, regression trees, random forests, and neural networks, to several heterogeneous autoregressive (HAR) models ...
Talha Omer +3 more
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Economía, 2013 Este ensayo examina las concepciones cambiantes del Estado y el desarrollo dentro de los recientes materiales de la historiografía peruana. Las amplias interpretaciones de una dependencia estructural de las décadas de 1970 y 1980 dieron paso a un «giro ...
Paul Gootenberg
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The Under-Registration of Births in Latin America [PDF]
Approximately 14 percent of births are unregistered in Latin America according to estimates by UNICEF (2001). Children who lack an official birth certificate can be denied access to social services, including enrolling in school and accessing health ...
Analía Olgiati +2 more
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