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Dependent Articulation in the Global Pesticide Complex: Argentina's Agrochemical Industry After the Generics Market Revolution

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the late 1990s, the pesticide industry has undergone a ‘generics revolution’ as the centre of production, and trade has shifted to the global South. China and India have become major producers, capturing Latin American markets from Northern multinationals. As a major pesticide user and a key node in global supply chains, Argentina offers
Christian Berndt, Tomás Palmisano, Marion Werner   +2 more
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FIRST RECORD OF THE GENUS Ocyochterus FROM COLOMBIA AND NEW RECORDS OF OCHTERIDAE FROM COSTA RICA (HEMIPTERA: HETEROPTERA)

Acta Biológica Colombiana, 2015
The first Colombian record of Ocyochterus, expanding the previously known distributional range of the genus. Additionally, records of two species of Ochterus from Costa Rica are provided. The material examined is deposited at the Zoological Museum of the
Federico Herrera Madrigal
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La pedagogía universitaria en la Universidad de Costa Rica

Revista Educación, 2005
La pedagogia universitaria en la Universidad de Costa Rica:Al analizar la clase y frecuencia de las acciones tendentes a proporcionar capacitacion pedagogica a los docentes de la Universidad de Costa Rica, se encuentra que predomina una concepcion que ubica esta capacitacion en un nivel meramente introductorio (Quiros y Pinto, 1988).
Quirós, Kemly, Jiménez, Tito
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‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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Macroeconomic Effects of Public Investment in EMDEs: Nonlinear Effects of the Business Cycle, Fiscal Space, Capital Stock and Efficiency

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). To this end the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically adjusted government investment.
Amat Adarov, Benedict Clements, João Tovar Jalles   +2 more
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Una trayectoria de calidad y aporte a la educación: historia del INIE

Actualidades Investigativas en Educación, 2005
Semblanza Congreso Internacional de Investigación Educativa: “Investigar para transformar” Instituto de Investigación en Educación-Universidad de Costa Rica, COSTA RICA. 2 de febrero de 2005.
Marta Rojas Porras
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Success factors for the management of recoverable solid residues at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica

, 2021
Abstract:  A baseline study on technical aspects was conducted for the analysis of success factors in the management of recoverable solid residues at Universidad Nacional. Features were grouped into four areas: management planning, outreach and promotion, operation, and financing.
Gerlin Salazar-Vargas, Rooel Campos-Rodríguez, Noelia Garita Sánchez   +2 more
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¿QUIÉNES ESTUDIAN SOCIOLOGÍA EN LA UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA?

Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2021
En el presente artículo se expone una parte de los principales resultados de la Caracterización del Perfil del Estudiantado Activo en la Escuela de Sociología de la Universidad de Costa Rica: su relevancia académico-administrativa. Se buscó recuperar un perfil amplio, más allá de las concepciones tradicionales, por lo que se incluyeron cinco ...
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Respondent‐Driven Sampling as a Tool for Studying Migrants in Need of International Protection: New Evidence from Costa Rica

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Threat evasion—the need to escape imminent threats to safety and survival—is a major driver of international migration. Demographic research on threat‐evasive migration, however, remains scant, owing to a longstanding dearth of systematic data on migrants in need of international protection (MNP).
Matthew Blanton, Abigail Weitzman, Gilbert Brenes Camacho, Ana Lucía Fernandez Fernandez   +3 more
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Historia del desarrollo de las ciencias del mar en la Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2009
La Escuela de Biología de la Universidad de Costa Rica ha contribuido significativamente al avance de las ciencias del mar en Costa Rica. Esto lo ha logrado mediante la formación de recursos humanos y, conjuntamente con el Centro de Investigación en ...
Jorge Cortés
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