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Ensuring respect for indigenous cultures: A moral rights approach

Vézina, Brigitte - 2020

From commercials to movies to fashion, Indigenous artworks have been misused in ways that are offensive to the artists who created them and disrespectful of the cultures that inspired them. Using Indigenous traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) without acknowledging their sources or providing...

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Majority-minority constellations: Towards a group-differentiated approach

Koopmans, Ruud; Orgad, Liav - 2020

Multiculturalism has taken a life of its own, swinging too far in one direction. The authors claim that the rapidly changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights should also apply to majority groups. They present...

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Bolivia's New Constitution: Towards Participatory Democracy and Political Pluralism?

Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut - 2010

In Bolivia, rights to increased political participation and the recognition of indigenous political systems are interrelated. The new constitution of 2009, a prime example of the 'new Andean constitutionalism', defines Bolivia as a representative, participatory and communitarian democracy. It...

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Turning Legal Pluralism into State-Sanctioned Law: Assessing the Implications of the New Constitutions and Laws in Bolivia and Ecuador

Barrera, Anna - 2011

Ethnically diverse societies have long faced the challenge of accommodating distinct and often conflictive normative orders within a single polity. Leaving the ideal of a single, homogeneous legal order aside, many Latin American states have recently acknowledged the right of indigenous peoples...

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Democratizing Resource Governance through Prior Consultations? Lessons from Bolivia's Hydrocarbon Sector

Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut - 2012

With the recent expansion of extractive industries in Latin America, contestations with the affected communities have increased in number and intensity. Therein, the indigenous right to prior consultation and to free, prior and informed consent has played a crucial role. Based on the empirical...

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Critical raw materials partner Canada: An (almost) perfect match. The European-Canadian raw materials partnership in times of friendshoring

Carry, Inga - 2024

-called critical raw materials. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen considers Canada a "perfect match" - a resource …-rich and reliable partner that shares the EU's geopolitical interests and sustainability goals. Canada is seeking to diversify …

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Resources, trade, and the aboriginal population: Lessons from the 1780s smallpox epidemic in the Hudson Bay Region

Carlos, Ann; Lewis, Frank - 2009

We explore the impact of one of the earlier epidemics to hit natives living in the Hudson Bay drainage basin: the smallpox outbreak of 1780-82. We review contemporary descriptions of the epidemic and how Europeans at the time viewed its impact on the native population of the region. We then...

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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession

Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011

This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....

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The reliability of Canadian output gap estimates

Cayen, Jean-Philippe; van Norden, Simon - 2004

current estimates of the output gap in Canada. We begin by assembling a new data base of quarterly realtime output estimates …

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Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada?

Picot, Garnett; Sweetman, Arthur - 2011

Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden …. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada's immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration … deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden. …

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