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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Latin America and the Caribbean"”.
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Trade Patterns of Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from the agri-food sector
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is one of the most important players in global agricultural trade, being among the global leaders in the production and exports of agricultural and fisheries commodities and accounting for 15% of the world’s average agri-food export from 1995 to 2019. …
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Foreign direct investment, democracy, and income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1991 to 2017
<p>This dissertation contributes to the discussion of the theoretical relationship between FDI and income inequality by arguing that the relationship depends on the political system. Focusing on the region of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), this dissertation uses a fixed-effects model and a …
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The Impact of China's Economic Engagement on Political Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2000 to 2015: An Empirical Analysis
<p>China’s economic presence in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has rapidly grown since the new millennium. The following question is whether China’s increasing economic engagement with LAC has promoted China’s political influence in the region, which has long been treated as the backyard of …
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Essays in Economic Development and Political Empowerment
… of which are on different topics. Chapter 1: T The Effect of Economic Freedom on Economic Growth: A Case Study of the Middle East Region. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of economic freedom on foreign direct investment inflow and economic growth to countries of the Middle …
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Skin Deep: Latin American and Caribbean Students' Graduate Life at Predominantly White Institutions in the Midwest
The aim of this study is to add to the body of literature on transnational students generally, as well as to the literature on people from Latin America and the Caribbean specifically, with the potential to expand the range of opportunities and outcomes.
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Natural Resource Revolutions: Mexico and Cuba Within the Sphere of U.S. Hegemony
<p>The improbable trajectories of Mexico and Cuba give rise to compelling questions: in what ways have the revolutionary governments of Mexico and Cuba been able to practice successful defiance of the United States hegemon of the twentieth century? And how has that defiance helped to define U.S. …
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Intimate Partner Violence in a Conservative Christian Denomination: Prevalence and Risk Factors
<p>This study examines the prevalence and risk factors of intimate partner violence (IPV) in a Christian denomination. To date, no studies have been found in the literature that looked at IPV in a Christian denomination in South America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Little is known regarding …
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Framework for Assessing Integrated Water Resources Management in Latin America: Case Studies of Buenos Aires and São Paulo
<p>This thesis examines the World Banks Latin America and the Caribbean Blue Water Green Cities (BWGC) urban water development initiative that began in 2009. This program attempts to create a comprehensive Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach for policymakers at both local and …
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Can development initiatives reduce the recruitment of adolescents to organised crime groups? Perspectives of the recipients of the Prospera Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Mexico
This thesis explores the role of Development policy as an alternative to the traditional public security focused strategies for tackling organised crime violence in Latin America and the Caribbean. To do so, it builds bridges between the academic literature of criminology and development. It …
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A cost-effective portable telemedicine kit for use in Developing countries
Telemedicine is currently being used to bridge the physical distance between patients in remote areas and medical specialists around the world. Developing countries have had little experience or success with telemedicine, in part because of the prohibitively expensive equipment and connectivity …
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Perceptions of measures to control Aedes mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases in Costa Rica
Aedes mosquitoes are responsible for the transmission of several arboviruses throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world. In the Americas, Aedes aegypti is the most competent vector of dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and yellow fever. With up to 400 million cases globally each year, dengue …
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A hierarchical and longitudinal analysis of the effects of international food and agricultural commodity price surges on domestic income distribution
… question debated among development scholars and professionals is whether the distribution of income within nations is becoming less equitable due to the forces of globalization. This study investigated the effect of a single global economic event, the 2006 to 2008 global food price surges, on …
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The Mental Health of Peruvian Immigrants in Santiago, Chile
This dissertation presents results from the first quantitative population based study exploring prevalence of Common Mental Disorders (CMDs), psychotic symptoms and Hazardous Drinking (HD) and factors associated with each outcome in a large group of first generation economic ‘immigrants’ in …
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Pedagogy and culture through the voices of teachers and students: contextualising effective teaching and learning in primary schools of the Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is an anomaly in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean, as it has one of the highest rates of economic production, yet low learning outcomes according to global and regional comparative evaluations. In 2012, the Ministry of Education (MINERD) launched its Educational …
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A Global Education Transition: Computer Simulation of Alternative Paths to Universal Basic Education
<p>As an acknowledgment of the critical role of education in realizing other development targets, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of the United Nations include education in a framework of development targets. The MDG targets for education include achieving universal primary education and …
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Gender equality in academic governance: Organizational approaches and collective attitudes
In Latin America and the Caribbean region, female presence at governance boards accounts for only thirteen (12.7) percent (Credit Suisse Research Institute, 2021). This dissertation focuses on Colombian public universities, because they have one of the lowest female representations at boards …
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A Canada in the South: Marronage in Antebellum American Literature
… maroons—enslaved people who fled from slavery and self-exiled to places like swamps and forests—in the textual and historical worlds of the pre-Civil War United States. I examine a counter-archive of US literature that imagines marronage as offering alternate spaces of freedom, refuge, and …
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The impact of fiscal deficits on economic growth in developing countries : Empirical evidence and policy implications
This study examines the impact of fiscal deficits on economic growth in developing countries. Based on deduction from the relevant theoretical and empirical literature, the study tests the following hypotheses regarding the impact of fiscal deficits on economic growth. First, fiscal deficits have …
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The impact of fiscal deficits on economic growth in developing countries : Empirical evidence and policy implications
This study examines the impact of fiscal deficits on economic growth in developing countries. Based on deduction from the relevant theoretical and empirical literature, the study tests the following hypotheses regarding the impact of fiscal deficits on economic growth. First, fiscal deficits have …
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Teaching Revolution: Women Primary School Teachers, Race, and Social Reproduction in Cuba
… Dr. Miriam Nicado García was appointed Rector of the University of Havana, making her the first woman of color to hold the position in the institution’s 209-year existence. This is undoubtedly a historic event that serves as a starting point to consider the intersections of formal education and …
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