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through improved energy access, livelihood opportunities, and improved quality of life. Communities in rural Guatemala are …
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Micronutrient malnutrition affects 2 billion people worldwide and biofortification could prove to be a cost-effective solution to its alleviation. The aims of this study are as follows: (i) to understand consumer acceptance of the main sensory characteristics such as taste, color, texture, etc.,...
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Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, we find that: (1) School attainment has a significant and substantial effect...
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This paper empirically examines the relationship between the self-identity as Indigenous and earnings inequality in the Mexican labor market. Using Mexican Census data and a large set of wage covariates reveals the existence of an earnings penalty for self-identification as Indigenous. There is...
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Turkey received about 2.7 million Syrian refugees between 2011 and 2015. This paper examines the causal impact of this influx on the Turkish natives' labor market outcomes using the micro level annual Household Labor Force Surveys. The migration impact is analyzed in two distinct categories...
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Diverse rural Indigenous communities in Canada, like those in many regions of the world, are facing a variety of … literacy programmes). This article discusses two examples of digital inclusion co-developed with Indigenous peoples in Canada …
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The aim of the paper is to use the data envelopment analysis (DEA) for mining in Zacatecas and provide efficiency … indicators in the years 1998, 2003, and 2008. We compare the performance of the state of Zacatecas with other mining states in … Mexico. Then the empirical analysis extends to specific mining. The study is an important source of information about mining …
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Both services and mining industries gained relatively more importance in the structural changes occurring, particularly … in recent years, where the rate of structural change has increased. The study aims at defragmenting the mining and … activity is measured in terms of investment shows the mining industry to have relatively less Mean Absolute Errors forecasts …
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