Do government expenditure and financial development impede environmental degradation in Venezuela?
PLoS ONE, 2019 Environmental degradation is causing global warming, which is of the utmost concern to both physical and social scientists. A number of potential determinants of environmental degradation are analysed in the literature.
Alotaish Mohammed Saud M +4 more
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Scientia Marina, 2007 P align=justify>The grunts (Haemulidae) are an important component of the artisan fisheries in eastern Venezuela, but their biology is poorly known. The object of the present work was to supply basic information about the reproductive biology of Haemulon
José L. Palazón-Fernández
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ENSO-driven climate variability promotes periodic major outbreaks of dengue in Venezuela
Scientific Reports, 2018 Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease of global impact. In Venezuela, dengue has emerged as one of the most important public health problems of urban areas with frequent epidemics since 2001. The long-term pattern of this disease has involved not only
M. Vincenti-Gonzalez +3 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 +2 more
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Restructuring Venezuela\u27s Debt Using Pari Passu [PDF]
, 2017 Given the depth of Venezuela\u27s economic crisis, many fear that the government and the state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. ( PDVSA ) are on the brink of insolvency.
Fayyad, Khaled, Lyratzakis, Dimitrios
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Class/race polarisation in Venezuela and the electoral success of Hugo Chávez: a break with the past or the song remains the same? [PDF]
, 2008 Polls have repeatedly shown a class based polarisation around Chávez, which some political science analysis on Venezuela has recognised. This paper seeks to show, however, that this class based division needs to be placed in historical context to be ...
Cannon, Barry
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Lancet Global Health, 2019 BACKGROUND Between the 1950s and 2000, Venezuela showed one of the most substantial improvements in infant mortality rates in Latin America. However, the recent economic crisis alongside an increase in infectious and parasitic diseases might be reversing
Jenny García +2 more
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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The Attitude of Latin American Countries towards Venezuela’s Dual Power Situation from 2019 to 2022 [PDF]
The Review of International AffairsThe research subject of this paper is the attitude of Latin American countries towards the dual power situation in Venezuela in the period between 2019 and 2022.
Rajko Petrović, Ivan Dujić
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The Pleistocene Glyptodontidae Gray, 1869 (Xenarthra: Cingulata) of Colombia and some considerations about the South American Glyptodontinae [PDF]
, 2012 Until recently, one well-characterized Pleistocene genus of the subfamily Glyptodontinae (Glyptodon ca. 1.08-0.0011 My) was recognized in South America.
Arenas Mosqueras, José E. +3 more
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