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New Bolivians, New Bolivia: Pentecostal Conversion and Neoliberal Transformation in Contemporary Bolivia
"Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Cochabamba, Bolivia, this dissertation analyzes discourses of transformation among Pentecostal Christians within the context of recent neoliberal social and economic reforms that have drastically altered Bolivian society. These reforms have caused immense …
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Bolivia: A Prelude to Revolution 1940-1946
The history of Bolivia since the Chaco War (1932- 1935) has been characterized by an extensive amount of social upheaval. This period witnessed the formation of left-wing political parties whose agitation and revolutionary activity culminated in the revolution of 1952. The political party that …
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Empirical essays in development economics: Evidence from Bolivia
… evaluation, and community-driven development in Bolivia. The first chapter investigates the potential of information technologies to improve public service delivery and empower citizens in the context of two unusual randomized natural experiments occurring within one particular bureaucratic …
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Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Bolivia, 2000-2005
… cycle of extra-parliamentary insurrection in Bolivia between 2000 and 2005. It draws from Marxist and indigenous-liberationist theory to challenge the central presuppositions of liberal-institutionalist understandings of contemporary indigenous politics in Latin America, as well as the core …
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Building Women’s Solidarity to Advance Women’s Rights in Bolivia
… ethnic and class divisions between women in Bolivia. It also examines the cultural challenges that help explain the status of women in Bolivia and the obstacles women face to become politically active. It provides the theories of decolonization and depatriachalization as practical ways …
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The Applications of palynostratigraphy to the Devonian of Bolivia
… the Rio Lajas at Bermejo, Santa Cruz Province, Bolivia. One hundred and forty-five samples were taken from this section to validate the cuttings-based Devonian subsurface palynostratigraphy. Similar palynological trends were identified in the same stratigraphic order as seen in the subsurface. A …
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Gender issues, indigenous peoples and popular partication in Bolivia
… and September 1997 in various sites throughout Bolivia. Although the research process itself will be outlined more thoroughly in chapter 4 it would be useful to initially clarify a few key points as to the processes of fieldwork which resulted in the analyses presented in this thesis. The …
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Hyperinflation and stabilization: The case of Bolivia (1984-1986)
The Bolivian hyperinflation of 1984-1985 stands out as one of the most dramatic inflation phenomena in world history. In the 12-month period preceding August 1985, the price level increased by more than 20,000 percent.
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Staple Crop Diversity and Risk Mitigation - Potatoes in Bolivia
… elsewhere. Cochabamba Department, in central Bolivia, is home to some of these LFAs. Most Cochabamban producers are located in the "high climatic risk" (CIP-WPA) Andean highlands. Farmers in LFAs surrounding Cochabamba city produce (among other things) potatoes for market and home consumption; …
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Crisis política en Bolivia: La participación de Argentina y Brasil
… estos dos países durante la crisis desatada en Bolivia a partir de la asunción de Evo Morales en el año 2006. En primer lugar se hará una descripción sobre como cada uno ha llevado a cabo esta intervención, de qué manera y por qué medios lo han hecho y si se realizó de manera individual o …
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Green Expectations: Politics of the Environment in Pink Tide Bolivia
… In 2005, Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia, part of a cohort of leftist governments ascendant in Latin America between the mid-1990s and early 2000s collectively known as the Pink Tide. Morales’s victory was widely viewed as a victory for Bolivia’s social movements, including …
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Knowledge for development? : reflections from consultants and advisors in Bolivia
… consultants and advisors in two organisations in Bolivia. In particular, it examines and analyses the perceptions and reflections of consultants, advisors, and, to some extent, beneficiaries/clients; how they are framed by institutional and organisational discourses; and the apparent limits to …
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Constructing, Construing, and Communicating: Intercultural Communication in La Paz, Bolivia
My central hypothesis is that the officials and representatives will use different discourse cues to signal social meaning and that these differences will sometimes result in miscommunication. Although I find instances where differences in the discourse cues could have led to misunderstanding, it …
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Assembling Economic Citizenship: Indigenous Women’s Work in Post-Neoliberal Bolivia
… literature on the ‘post-neoliberal’ shift in Bolivia post-2006, there has been limited attention to women’s working lives. Furthermore, literature on urban indigenous women’s work in Bolivia, as with the Andean region more widely, has centred on highland women’s work as (informal) market …
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Bolivia and industrialization: an integrated view of the relevant factors.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1966. M.S.
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Developing an Evaluation Program for Lumber Drying Operations in Bolivia
The Bolivian forest products industry has experienced substantial growth during the last ten years. Exports of value-added products have largely replaced logs and green lumber, and raw materials for wood products have shifted to lesser used species. Important investment has taken place in lumber …
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"La llegada del Pachakuti": movimientos étnico-campesinos de la Bolivia andina
Esta tesis solo está en formato papel por lo que se debe consultar en la propia Biblioteca Di Tella. La consulta se hace solo bajo reserva escribiendo a serviciosbiblio@utdt.edu.
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