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Water and land stress in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru under coupled climate-socioeconomic scenarios
Feng, Kuishuang; Chen, Xiangjie - 2023
simulates future land and water demand for Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru under three climate-socioeconomic scenarios: SSP … projected to increase rapidly in the next few decades. By 2050, the demand for cropland in Peru and Bolivia will exceed those … Peru, exacerbating competition between those sectors and the agricultural sector for water. In Peru and Bolivia, there is a …
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From wells to wealth? Government transfers and human capital
Acuna, Julio; Balza, Lenin H.; Gomez-Parra, Nicolas - 2022
To study the causal impact of oil royalties on human capital, we exploit quasi-experimental variation arising from a law in Ecuador that transfers resources to municipalities regardless of their oil-producing status. We find that royalties increase the likelihood of students completing primary...
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Book Review: Widener, Patricia. 2011. Oil Injustice: Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador
Latta, Alex - In: Global Environmental Politics 14 (2014) 3, pp. 150-151
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From wells to wealth? : government transfers and human capital
Acuna, Julio; Balza, Lenin H.; Gomez-Parra, Nicolas - 2022
To study the causal impact of oil royalties on human capital, we exploit quasi-experimental variation arising from a law in Ecuador that transfers resources to municipalities regardless of their oil-producing status. We find that royalties increase the likelihood of students completing primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496000
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HACIA LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE UNA ORGANIZACIÓN TERRITORIAL CON DESARROLLO HUMANO Y SOCIAL
Uquillas, Alfredo - In: Observatorio Iberoamericano del Desarrollo Local y la … (2007) 2
El desarrollo social es un proceso en el cual las relaciones de producción y los factores culturales se encuentran en estrecha interacción, y cuya base es el desarrollo de las fuerzas productivas .
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The Resource Curse Hypothesis: Evidence from Ecuador
Cori, Andrea; Monni, Salvatore - 2014
The aim of this work is to evaluate the economic stability of the choices made by the Government of Ecuador regarding the management of natural resources in the context of the Revolucion Ciudadana designed to create a society based on Buen Vivir. The choice of an intensification of the mining...
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Relationship between productivity and efficiency with sustainable development goals : the case of the manufacturing industry in Pichincha, Ecuador
Ibujés-Villacís, Juan; Franco-Crespo, Antonio - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 35 (2023), pp. 34-56
In 2015, at the United Nations forum, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were approved to be met by 2030. This research aims to know what has been the behavior of productivity and efficiency of the manufacturing industry in the province of Pichincha, Ecuador, and the relationship with...
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L'evoluzione della ruralità nei Paesi in via di sviluppo (PVS). Approcci teorici ed applicativi
Pisani, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Rural economy, that is, the integrated system of non-homogeneous activities as performed out of urban areas, has very often been confused, in the development literature, with agricultural economy, which aims at the increase of agricultural and zootechnic production. The two terms imply distinct,...
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A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Leer, Jane; López Bóo, Florencia; Perez Expósito, Ana; … - 2016
Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...
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Sistemas de Alerta Temprana para Inundaciones: Análisis Comparativo de Tres Países Latinoamericanos
del Granado, Susana; Stewart, Anna; Borbor, Mercy; … - 2016
, Ecuador y Bolivia existe un incremento en el riesgo a sucesos extremos en general y a inundaciones en particular. El objetivo …
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