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This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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The Asia and Pacific region and Latin America and Caribbean region are two regions divided not only by vast geographic … distance, but also by disparities in economics, politics, culture, and history. Most recently, a number of forums explored the … cooperation between the Asia and Pacific region and Latin America and the Caribbean. It also provides some recommendations to …
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This paper explores the potential link between trade and labor outcomes in rural areas in Latin America by estimating …. We find a significant positive association between labor outcomes in rural areas and some measures of international trade … higher wages and labor income in rural areas, in particular for those workers located in the bottom quantiles of the …
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Occupational health is increasingly recognized as an important public health issue in Latin American and the Caribbean. One major concern is the absence of reliable data on its magnitude and economic consequences. The first part of the paper presents the official statistics on workplace...
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This book organized by Alice Abreu, actual President of ISA-RC30 “Sociology of Work”, is a follow up of an …
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standard (Solow-style) growth accounting methodologies. We find that factor accumulation (especially labor), rather than growth … of capital accumulation and some natural constraints on labor, the strong growth momentum is unlikely to be sustainable …
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, furthermore, on similar processes in other parts of the world. The papers included in this volume present the results of the Labor … the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). The articles included are: The Battle over Labor Standards in the … Global Economy; Free Trade and Labor Standards: A Developing Relationship; Labor Clauses in Trade Agreements: Policy and …
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Occupational health is increasingly recognized as an important public health issue in Latin American and the Caribbean. One major concern is the absence of reliable data on its magnitude and economic consequences. The first part of the paper presents the official statistics on workplace...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653144