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tropical forests of Bolivia, Cameroon, and Myanmar. Using 250-meter cells, the model estimates the relationship between the …
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The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest and an important constituent of the global biosphere, continues degrading by rapid deforestation, which is expected to continue despite policies to prevent it. Current international funding to protect the Amazon rainforest focuses on...
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Bolivia's primary natural hazards - such as droughts, frost, severe rains, and hailstorms - are largely … Government of Bolivia, which has achieved significant progress in establishing a regulatory and institutional framework for this …
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Bolivia is a country with a vast geographical diversity, from a high plateau (altiplano) that reaches 3,000 meters … above sea level to valleys at mid-altitude and tropical plains. During the last decade, the magnitude of Bolivia's weather …
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This paper focuses on the inequalities in health, nutrition, and population in Bolivia. It presents data on …
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This review of gender issues aims to uncover the main gender gaps in the country, and to identify potential policy recommendations that could help closing them in the coming years.The note is an input to the development of a Gender Action Plan for the Andean Countries under the Gender Analysis...
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Bolivia has achieved significant improvements in its reproductive health indicators in recent years. Yet the country … after Haiti. Bolivia's indigenous women are particularly vulnerable to death from complications related to pregnancy … experiential knowledge in these communities in Bolivia and gain insights into supply- and demand-side barriers that keep women away …
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communities' use of new technologies in rural Bolivia, the study concludes that enhancing poor people's informational capabilities …
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Gender-based wage discrimination is a highly researched area of labor economics. However, most studies on this topic have focused on schooling and paid limited attention to the mechanisms through which cognitive and noncognitive skills influence wages. This paper uses data from adults in seven...
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This paper takes advantage of repeated cross-section household surveys and a sharp discontinuity created by the introduction of an unconditional cash transfer to elders. The paper evaluates the impact of these cash transfers on the educational expenditures for children within a household. The...
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