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Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Unsuccessful efforts to update the middle power concept for the contemporary international system have prompted calls for the concept to be “historicized”—to be retired from common use and treated as a purely historical term. The problem with this proposal is that “middle power” has become increasingly popular in the 2020s in analysis ...
Kim Richard Nossal
wiley   +1 more source

Reaccreditation of university degrees at the University of Costa Rica: accomplishments and pending issues.

, 2021
En este artículo se analiza el contenido de quince compromisos de mejoramiento (CM) presentados por carreras de la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) que se han reacreditado por primera vez, con la Agencia Sistema Nacional de Acreditación de la Educación Superior (SINAES) utilizando el Manual de acreditación oficial de carreras de grado vigente, que ...
openaire   +1 more source

Lowest Common Denominator: Explaining Multilateral Bargaining Over Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems Regulation

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) have the potential to dramatically alter modern warfare and reshape global power differentials. Despite the strong rationale for negotiating global rules, consensus on whether and how to regulate LAWS has yet to be reached.
Johannes Geith
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating dry matter in African stargrass (Cynodon nlemfuensis) forage with in-field hyperspectral proximal sensing

Smart Agricultural Technology
Hyperspectral remote sensing, applied to forage monitoring, stands as an innovative technology promising to enhance livestock production by providing real-time results at reduced costs.
MG Blanco-Barrientos, MM Rojas-Downing, AM Rojas-González, JA Elizondo-Salazar   +3 more
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Between Sustainable Development, Financialisation and Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Blue Finance as Yet Another Iteration of the Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
wiley   +1 more source

Universal Coverage: Dream or Utopia? The Situation of Costa Rica

, 2012
Costa Rican Social Security System is internationally considered one of the most successful and efficient systems in Latin America. First it started covering the Public Sector worker, and it has been straighten to become one of the most widely comprehensive in its approach, and one with the highest population and financial coverage.
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Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Honduras : a checklist with description of a new ochlerine genus [PDF]

, 2003
Through collecting, surveys of museum collections, and search of the literature, we are able to list 181 species of Pentatomidae as occurring within the boundaries of the Republic of Honduras.
Arismendi, Nolberto, Thomas, Donald B.
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Food, Affluence and the Consumption Basket*

Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, EarlyView.
There are significant disparities across nations in incomes and spending. For example, consumers in the poorest countries spend more than half of their income on food, while in the richest, this is one‐tenth or less. We use data from the International Comparison Program for 176 countries to estimate cross‐country demand equations focusing on food and ...
Hai Long Vo, Kenneth W. Clements
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoreo de procesos de ecológicos del Bosque Seco Tropical: Aplicaciones de sensores remotos para estimaciones a nivel de paisaje y el cambio global [PDF]

, 2014
Proyecto de Investigación. y extensión (Código VIE: 5402-1401-1012) Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Extensión (VIE).
Berbara, Ricardo, Calvo-Alvarado, Julio, Calvo-Obando, Ana Julieta, Capote, Rene, Carvajal-Venegas, Dorian, Castillo, Alicia, De-Espirito-Santo, Marcos, Fernandes, Geraldo W., Gamon, John, Garvin, Theresa, Hilje-Rodríguez, Branko, Jiménez-Rodríguez, César, Lawrence, Deborah, Meneses, Rómulo, Monge, Francisco, Nassar, Jafet M., Quesada, Mauricio, Rivard, Benoit, Rodríguez, Jon Paul, Schnitzer, Stefan, Stoner, Kathryn E., Sánchez-Azofeifa, Arturo   +21 more
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Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption? Such campaigns use messaging about how people typically behave (descriptive norms) or ought to behave (injunctive norms). Drawing on survey and lab experiments in Ukraine, we unpack and evaluate the distinct effects of these two types of social norms.
Aaron Erlich, Jordan Gans‐Morse
wiley   +1 more source