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Dimensiones de la confección de una juventud virtuosa: manuales de urbanidad en Chile (c.1840-c.1900)

Universum, 2012
Se ha señalado que la idea de juventud es una construcción social y cultural, condicionada por su entorno y contingencia. Así, la historiografía ha coincidido en notar la escolarización como uno de sus factores más destacados.
Pablo Toro Blanco
doaj  

Quantifying the rural-urban gradient in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]

This paper addresses the deceptively simple question: What is the rural population of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? It argues that rurality is a gradient, not a dichotomy, and nominates two dimensions to that gradient: population density and ...
Buys, Piet, Chomitz, Kenneth M., Thomas, Timothy S.   +2 more
core  

Multisectoral Convergence of Food, Nutrition and Sanitation Programs for Child Health: Evidence From Country‐Level Programs in India

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper underscores the critical role of multisectoral convergence in enhancing child health, particularly in addressing anemia, a micronutrient deficiency linked to both diet and sanitation. We explore how the integration of nationwide food and nutrition programs with sanitation initiatives impacts anemia in Indian children under three ...
Soumya Gupta, Payal Seth, Prabhu Pingali
wiley   +1 more source

Noma: A disease of poverty presenting at an urban hospital in the United States

, 2014
Alexander Maley, Megan Desai, Sareeta Parker   +2 more
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Solid Waste Management Practice in a Less Developed Urban Setting: A Case Study [PDF]

, 2017
Ahmed Fate Ali, A. S. Kovo, N Njoku, J Lamond, G Everett, P Manu, O Buenrostro, G Bocco, C Vidanaarachchi, S Yuen, S Pilapitiya, R Henry, Z Yongsheng, D Jun, A Amusan, D Ige, R Olawale, A Ali, R Young, J Agunwanba, A Imam, B Mohammed, D Wilson, C Cheeseman, T Ogwueleka, M Bichi, D Amatobi, O Okunola, A Uzairu, C Gimba, G Ndukwe, M Ahmed, N Muhammad, M Mohammed, Y Idris, U Isa, A Yusuf, A Nabegu, A Ibrahim, A Taiwo, A Ali, R Young, I Amber, M Daniel, G Nicholas, A Nabegu   +45 more
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the price responsiveness of gasoline demand [PDF]

This paper develops a new method for estimating the demand function for gasoline and the deadweight loss due to an increase in the gasoline tax. The method is also applicable to other goods. The method uses shape restrictions derived from economic theory
Joel Horowitz, Matthias Parey, Richard Blundell   +2 more
core  

CCN activity of organic aerosols observed downwind of urban emissions during CARES

, 2013
Fan Mei, A. Setyan, Qi Zhang, Jian Wang
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Big Data-driven Decision-Making Processes for Environmentally Sustainable Urban Development: The Design, Planning, and Operation of Smart City Infrastructure

, 2020

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