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Showing 1 to 20 of 191 for “"Central America"”.
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The Cocaine-Wildlife Connection: Crime Convergence in Central America
… thesis analyzes the illegal wildlife trade in Central America and its connections to cocaine trafficking in protected areas by conducting a comparative study of Costa Rica and Guatemala. Recent scholarship on conservation crime suggests that illicit markets and trade networks intersect in …
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Evaluating international agricultural trade in Central America: three analyses
… relative export price when trade occurs among Central American countries (CAC). Results indicate that trade among CAC can be a powerful engine of growth, as indicated by significant positive responses of value of exports to a positive shock in income levels. However, relative export price plays …
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The Histories and Historians of Central America to 1850
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T21:20:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0002738.pdf: 18295768 bytes, checksum: 15dad01e60cac58e6cfd661271b4945f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1951
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Losers in the isthmus: Central America in American literature
… of interventionism, my dissertation studies American literature set in Central America from the era of the Monroe Doctrine to the end of the Nicaraguan contra war. Since the 1860's, American writers like Bret Harte, Richard Harding Davis, Paul Bowles, Joan Didion, Robert Stone, and others, …
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Geology of the Zacapa Quadrangle and vicinity, Guatemala, Central America
<p>Geologic mapping in the Zacapa quadrangle and southern Rio Hondo quadrangle has shown that the Las Ovejas Complex, of probable pre-Early Pennsylvanian age and the oldest rock south of the Motagua fault zone, is a sequence of interlayered schist, marble, amphibolite, gneiss and associated …
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Nutritional consequences of prehistoric subsistence strategies in lower Central America
… inhabited tropical coastal environments in lower Central America during the period from 5000 B.C. to A.D. 1550. The subsistence bases of archaeological populations are reconstructed using the stable carbon and stable nitrogen isotopic composition of human bone collagen. The effect of a monotonous …
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The Costs of US Interventions in Central America: Past and Present
… branches of the United States military into Central America and the unfavorable conditions in which millions of people find themselves living in today. Ironically, while American values such as self determination and democracy are preached by the international elite, financial interests have …
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Origins and Genetic Structure of the Garifuna Population of Central America
… genetic impact of forced human migrations to the Americas during the time of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The genesis of admixed populations was the result of this African migration and relocation, and this study focuses on the Garifuna peoples of Belize and their predecessors in the Caribbean, …
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Reagan, Central America and the Human Costs to Waging the Cold War
… has maintained a sphere of influence in Latin America. This hegemony has yielded beneficial results, such as the Panama Canal, and at times, has caused more harm than good. The later result has been the dominant outcome beginning with 1954 and the Central Intelligence Agency's foray into …
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How to make electric power markets work : the case of Central America
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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An input output table for the Central America Common Market: theoretical foundations.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1974. M.C.P.
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Trade and foreign investment as forces behind the underdevelopment of Central America
… of the standards used or point of view chosen, Central America is underdeveloped. What needs to be understood is that the problem of underdevelopment is only partly indigenous, and to a large degree quite recent. This thesis will look at both external and internal actors, acting independently as …
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Breaking down barriers: Market opportunities for Appalachian forest products in Central America
… weaknesses of Appalachian wood products sales in Central America. In the future, there may be a greater need for international forest products in Central America due to increasing population size, tourism, and deforestation. Potential market opportunities for Appalachian forest product companies …
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Species Sadness: Race, Gender, And Animality In Twentieth-Century Mexico And Central America
… been disregarded as irrelevant to Mexicanist and Central Americanist scholarship on race, sexuality, gender, and politics, this project argues that thinking through the animal was a key method through which twentieth-century writers revised what ought to be considered “natural” and normative. The …
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Geology of the Bladen volcanic series, southern Maya Mountains, Belize, Central America, The
Includes bibliographical references.
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Sovereignty under siege: drug trafficking and state capacity in the Caribbean and Central America
… their prominence throughout the Caribbean and Central America. These organizations undermine the rule of law, increase levels of violence and corruption, and hamper development, all of which can weaken a state. Weak or failing states become domestic and regional burdens that spill over into …
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Scope and limitations of a capability-based measure of Job Quality in Central America
In Latin America, the debate on what constitutes a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ job has been dominated by the phenomenon of informality. Indicators like the ‘informal sector size’ or the proportion of workers in ‘informal employment’ give little attention to the intrinsic features of jobs that affect workers’ …
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