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Showing 1 to 20 of 368 for “"Ecuador"”.
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The violence of refuge in Ecuador
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Posición del Ecuador en los aspectos de propiedad intelectual en la negociación comercial entre Ecuador y la Unión Europea
… y completa información sobre la posición de Ecuador en los Aspectos de propiedad intelectual en la negociación comercial entre Ecuador y la Unión Europea, brindando además información sobre propiedad intelectual en el Ecuador y la Unión Europea. Se hace énfasis en las “líneas rojas” de …
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Inversión extranjera directa: los capitales chilenos en Ecuador
… chilena directa. Dentro de éste contexto, el Ecuador a diferencia de otros países como Perú y Colombia, sus vecinos más próximos, es un país que no ha logrado captar gran parte de la inversión chilena en la región, sino que al contrario se caracteriza por ser uno de los últimos destinos de …
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Post-Dollarization Narratives of Economic Literacy in Ecuador
… narratives of conversation participants in Ecuador after dollarization permeates the concepts of self, and quality of life, binding both into a personal economic story that describes a person's economic narrative towards a definition of economic literacy.</p> <p><strong>Research Theory and …
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THE SALIENCE OF MEDICAL CULTURE IN AMAZONIAN ECUADOR
… of medical culture in the Upper Amazon region of Ecuador. In particular, it will focus on the Quichua community of Venecia Derecha. The framework for this thesis is based on Murray Last's (1981,1992) concept of "medical culture," which he uses for all things medical that go on in a given society. …
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Violin Performance Practice and Ethnicity in Saraguro, Ecuador
Compounding this differentiation are the college-educated Saraguro youths who, unlike older generations, are well-versed in a nation-wide discourse of ethnic legitimacy and cultural politics. Given the diversification of Saraguro society in terms of the degree of one's formal education and …
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Unsettled elites: reproducing the hacendado in neoliberal Ecuador
… 16 months of field research in Andean Ecuador, this dissertation is an ethnography of the reproduction of hacendado elite distinction in an environment of neoliberal volatility and unease. Evoking the Spanish colonial past, Criollo independence and nation-building, hacendado elites …
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Analysis of Policies Affecting Pesticide Use in Ecuador
… to quantify the degree of pesticide subsidy in Ecuador from 1991 to 1996. Equilibrium exchange rates were computed first to determine the indirect and total NPR's in addition to the direct NPR's. The computed equilibrium exchange rates from 1987 to 1996 indicated a decreasing trend in Sucre …
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Past Environmental Change On The Eastern Andean Flank, Ecuador
The eastern Andean flank of Ecuador (EAF) contains some of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. Andean montane forests are threatened due to anthropogenic pressures and both current and projected climate change. This thesis examines the palaeoecological history of two stratigraphic sequences …
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Quantifying carbon sequestration for riparian-zone restoration in Ecuador
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Mujeres, circuitos y fronteras en el sur del Ecuador.
La recherche doctorale de Patricia Ramos porte sur la thématique des femmes et circuits migratoires dans le Sud de l’Equateur. Plus précisément, elle va s’intéresser à l’agence (agency) et aux dynamiques de pouvoir auxquelles sont confrontées les femmes étrangères et équatoriennes au niveau local …
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Strategies to Increase Andean Potato Cultivation and Preservation in Ecuador
… and preservation of Andean potato cultivars in Ecuador. This qualitative research consisted of semi-structured interviews with Andean farmers in the province of Chimborazo to identify farmers’ key challenges, and a document analysis co-developed with local experts to identify key strategies that …
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Diversity of geometrid moths in a montane rainforest in Ecuador
… of the Podocarpus National Park in southern Ecuador along an altitudinal gradient ranging from 1,040 m to 2,677 m above sea level. This study is part of a larger interdisciplinary project on diversity and functioning of a montane forest ecosystem. A total of 13,938 moths representing 1,010 …
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The Effects of International Remittances on Child Schooling in Ecuador
An economic crisis hit Ecuador during the final years of the 20th century. This crisis initiated a massive migration of Ecuadoreans mostly to Europe and the United States. The remittances migrants started sending back rapidly increased and soon represented an important share of the GDP. This became …
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Phylogenetic Analyses of Andean and Amazonian Tree Communities in Ecuador
<p>The forests of Ecuador are known for their high levels of diversity and endemism, classifying the country as a biodiversity hotspot. Both the western Amazon and Andean montane forests are richly populated with tropical tree species that have been little studied in a community phylogenetic …
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