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The indigenous movement and the economic trajectory of Ecuador
Jameson, Kenneth P. - 2008
On many measures, the indigenous movement in Ecuador has been the most successful in Latin America. This is … since 2007 may marginalize them further. This paper examines Ecuador's checkered economic performance in the Washington … programs of the indigenous movement, specifically of CONAIE (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador). This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288111
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The Indigenous Movement and the Economic Trajectory of Ecuador
Jameson, Ken - Department of Economics, University of Utah - 2008
On many measures, the indigenous movement in Ecuador has been the most successful in Latin America. This is … since 2007 may marginalize them further. This paper examines Ecuador’s checkered economic performance in the Washington … programs of the indigenous movement, specifically of CONAIE (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador). This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005265197
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Economics of minority groups: labour market returns and transmission of indigenous languages
Fuente Stevens, Diego de la; Pelkonen, Panu - 2021
This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588923
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Economics of Minority Groups : Labour Market Returns and Transmission of Indigenous Languages
de la Fuente Stevens, Diego; Pelkonen, Panu - 2022
This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087838
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Racial and ethnic inequality in Latin America
Telles, Edward E.; Bailey, Stanley R.; Davoudpour, Shahin; … - 2023
This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540625
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The politics of horizontal inequality : indigenous opposition to wind farm development in Mexico
Jung, Courtney - 2017
In less than a decade, foreign investors have erected more than 3,200 wind turbines across the Isthmus of Techuantepec investing billions of dollars and generating more than 90 per cent of Mexico's wind energy. The isthmus is also home to more than one thousand indigenous communities whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011666493
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The Forced Relocation of Indigenous Peoples in Greenland – Repercussions in Tort Law and Beyond
Holle, Marie-Louise - 2019
In 1953, the US wished to establish a military base in the Dundas area of Greenland. Greenland was at the time a Danish colony. The Danish authorities granted the American request. The establishment of the military base meant that the over 100 members of the Thule tribe was forcibly relocated to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103059
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Indigenous Peoples, Human Development and the Capability Approach
Gigler, Bjorn-Soren - 2017
Both indigenous peoples and the capability approach (CA) take a holistic view on development and stress the multiple dimension of development as the expansion of people's well-being including social, cultural and spiritual elements. The paper investigates to what extent the capability approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962213
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Dam(n) Displacement : Compensation, Resettlement, and Indigeneity
Munzer, Stephen R. - 2019
Hydroelectric dams produce electricity, provide flood control, and improve agricultural irrigation. But the building and operation of these dams frequently involve forced displacement of local communities. Displacement often has an outsized impact on indigenous persons, who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014106555
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Economic behavior of indigenous peoples : the Mexican case
Pérez Velasco Pavón, Juan Carlos - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-58
Indigenous peoples have three features in common: their historical heritage, their current culture and their extreme poverty. This paper presents a hypothesis about the development of a cultural factor: indigenous people prefer to work on a small scale. This cultural factor developed during the...
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