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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY AND THE PESO PROBLEM

Revista de Economía Política de Buenos Aires, 2012
Este trabajo analiza la relación entre la incertidumbre política y el Peso Problem en mercados emergentes. Inicialmente, se asume que el país tiene un sistema de tipo de cambio fijo y que el gobierno actual nunca devaluará.
JAVIER GARCÍA FRONTI, LEI ZHANG
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De‐Dollarization Is a Plausible Outcome of the New Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A trend towards de‐dollarization of the global economy in which the US dollar ceases to be used as the world's reserve currency for international transactions confronts some of the existing structures of international economic law, built upon the rules set out by US‐led organizations like the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. This article will
David Collins
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Political uncertainty and the peso problem

Revista de Economía Política de Buenos Aires, 2008
This paper analyses the relation between political uncertainty and the Peso Problem in emerging markets. Initially, it is assumed that the country has a hard peg system (the present government will never devalue).
Javier García Fronti, Lei Zhang
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Obesidad en el niño en América Latina: situación, criterios de diagnóstico y desafíos Obesity in Latin American children: situation, diagnostic criteria and challenges

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2003
En la actualidad, la obesidad constituye un problema de Salud Pública y ha aumentado en adultos y niños. De 12 países latinoamericanos que tenían información completa de sobrepeso y obesidad algo más de un tercio supera el 20% en ambas situaciones.
Hugo Amigo
doaj   +1 more source

Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio, Ariel Lopez, Birgit Tremml‐Werner   +2 more
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Avaliação antropométrica do estado nutricional da gestante: visão retrospectiva e prospectiva Anthropometric assessment of the pregnant nutrition status: retrospective and prospective view

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, 2002
Os autores analisam os fundamentos teóricos, critérios e modelos técnicos utilizados nos últimos 40 anos na avaliação antropométrica do estado nutricional durante a gravidez.
Kênia Siqueira Coelho, Ariani Impieri de Souza, Malaquias Batista Filho   +2 more
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Political instability and the Peso problem [PDF]

, 2006
In Latin American countries, political instability is not uncommon: in particular, the transfer of power is not always subject to normal terms of election. In these circumstances, market expectations must not only take into account the commitment of the present government, but also incorporate future decisions of its potential successor.
García Fronti, Javier I., Zhang, Lei
openaire  

Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

Relationship between protein-energy malnutrition, vitamin A, and parasitoses in children living in Brasília Relação entre desnutrição energético-protéica, vitamina A, e parasitoses em crianças vivendo em Brasília

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2002
It is still controversial whether intestinal parasitic infections can influence the nutritional status of children. The relationship between protein-energy malnutrition, vitamin A and parasitic infections was evaluated in 124 children.
Maria Imaculada Muniz-Junqueira, Eduardo Flávio Oliveira Queiróz   +1 more
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