Achievements Prospects And Challenges Of Hemispheric Cooperation Occasional Paper Itd Documento De Divulgación Itd N 38

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BID-INTAL
Page : 42 pages
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Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789507382352

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Achievements, prospects and challenges of hemispheric cooperation (Occasional Paper ITD = Documento de Divulgación ITD ; n. 38) by Anonim Pdf

The greater openness of developing countries' economies and the free trade agreements negotiated in recent years have spurred arguments in favor of greater integration in the world; they have also given rise to strong opposition. In some cases the opposition stems from the reaction of specific, domestically oriented sectoral interests, and in others from the activism of groups adhering to what has been termed "globophobia". Regrettably, the implementation of the Hemispheric Cooperation Program (HCP) has been constrained by the paralysis of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, and thus has been extremely slow. Although the future of the HCP process is unclear, the experience to date in the Hemisphere provides a sufficient basis to analyze its origin and peculiarities, as well as its chief difficulties and determinants. The bilateral negotiations between the United States and Central America, the Dominican Republic and the Andean countries also provide important input for the analysis in this study, and the lessons learned can be very helpful to ensuring the successful implementation of the HCP.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BID-INTAL
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agricultural industries
ISBN : 9789507382475

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Agriculture in Brazil and China : challenges and opportunities (Occasional Paper ITD = Documento de Divulgación ITD ; n. 44) by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Ernesto López Córdova
Publisher : BID-INTAL
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9789507382406

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International remittances and development : existing evidence, policies and recommendations (Occasional Paper ITD = Documento de Divulgación ITD ; n. 41) by J. Ernesto López Córdova Pdf

In this paper we survey the recent literature assessing the development impact of international migrant remittances. We begin by arguing that international migration should be fully incorporated in ongoing debates on the impact of globalization. We show that, despite methodological challenges, there is an emerging body of evidence suggesting that migrant remittances can have an important impact on development and household welfare. Remittances appear to help in poverty reduction, accumulation of human capital, investment and saving. Finally, we offer an account of existing policies and recommendations to facilitate remittance flows and to take advantage of their developmental potential.

Author : Marianela Cedeño Bonilla
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 2831708184

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Environmental Law in Developing Countries by Marianela Cedeño Bonilla Pdf

This book contains a selection of papers on various legal issues of interest to developing countries which have been prepared by Fellows from InWent who came to Germany between 2002 and 2004 from Africa, Asia, and Latin America to research and write about subjects of their choice at the IUCN Environmental Law Centre.

Author : Stephan Amend,Thora Amend
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173006360320

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National Parks Without People? by Stephan Amend,Thora Amend Pdf

Author : Donald J. Mead
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Forest management
ISBN : 9251076340

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Sustainable Management of Pinus Radiata Plantations by Donald J. Mead Pdf

"Pinus radiata (radiata pine) is a versatile, fast-growing, medium-density softwood, suitable for a wide range of end-uses. Its silviculture is highly developed, and is built on a rm foundation of over a century of research, observation and practice. Radiata pine is often considered a model for growers of other plantation species. This book explores current knowledge of, and experience with radiata pine forest plantation management and examines its long-term sustainability. Radiata pine management needs to integrate the biological aspects of tree-growing, with socio-economics, management objectives, practical considerations and other constraints and opportunities. Although stands of radiata pine may appear to be simple, they are actually quite complex ecosystems because they contain large, long-lived trees that change dramatically over time and interact in changing ways with the environment and with other organisms. The focus of this book is on the principles and practices of growing radiata pine sustainably. It also looks ahead to emerging challenges facing radiata pine plantation management, such as the effects of climate change, new diseases and other threats, and meeting changing product needs and societal demands."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Toss Gascoigne,Bernard Schiele,Joan Leach,Michelle Riedlinger,Luisa Massarani,Bruce V. Lewenstein,Peter Broks
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781760463663

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Communicating Science by Toss Gascoigne,Bernard Schiele,Joan Leach,Michelle Riedlinger,Luisa Massarani,Bruce V. Lewenstein,Peter Broks Pdf

Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession—and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We have seen the birth of interactive science centres, the first university actions in teaching and conducting research, and a sharp growth in employment of science communicators. This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication. How did it all begin? How has development varied from one country to another? What motivated governments, institutions and people to see science communication as an answer to questions of the social place of science? Communicating Science describes the pathways followed by 39 different countries. All continents and many cultures are represented. For some countries, this is the first time that their science communication story has been told.

Author : Reginald Thomas Appleyard,International Organization for Migration
Publisher : International Org. for Migration
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015056297271

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The Human Rights of Migrants by Reginald Thomas Appleyard,International Organization for Migration Pdf

Includes statistics.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822023394448

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Glosario Del Banco Mundial by World Bank Pdf

This edition of the World Bank has been revised and expanded by the Terminology Unit in the Languages Services Division of the World Bank in collaboration with the English, Spanish, and French Translation Sections. The Glossary is intended to assist the Bank's translators and interpreters, other Bank staff using French and Spanish in their work, and free-lance translator's and interpreters employed by the Bank. For this reason, the Glossary contains not only financial and economic terminology and terms relating to the Bank's procedures and practices, but also terms that frequently occur in Bank documents, and others for which the Bank has a preferred equivalent. Although many of these terms, relating to such fields as agriculture, education, energy, housing, law, technology, and transportation, could be found in other sources, they have been assembled here for ease of reference. A list of acronyms occurring frequently in Bank texts (the terms to which they refer being found in the Glossary) and a list of international, regional, and national organizations will be found at the end of the Glossary.

Author : Miguel A. Pereyra,Hans-Georg Kotthoff,Robert Cowen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460917400

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PISA Under Examination by Miguel A. Pereyra,Hans-Georg Kotthoff,Robert Cowen Pdf

From the 23rd to 26th of November 2009 in La Palma island, in the Canaries, the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) organized an international symposium entitled PISA under Examination: Changing Knowledge, Changing Tests, and Changing Schools. During four days seventeen leading scholars of Europe and America presented their contributions to debate the different problematiques of the remarkable phenomenon represented by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment or PISA. PISA is not merely an educational event. It is also a media circus which involves the public rehearsal for reasons for failure or success; and even, in some cases, public and political and academic explanations about why 'failure' was not really that, and why 'success' was not really that either. At the centre of all these indications, we find the growing influence of international agencies on education and schooling which is decisively contributing to a marketisation of the field of education, in the context of an increasingly multilevel and fragmented arena for educational governance based on the formulation, the regulation and the transnational coordination and convergence of policies, buttressed at the same time by the diffusion of persuasive discursive practice. Organized in four sections entitled The Comparative Challenges of the OCDE PISA Programme, PISA and School Knowledge, The Assessment of PISA, School Effectiveness and the Socio-cultural Dimension, PISA and the Immigrant Student Question, and Extreme Visions of PISA: Germany and Finland, the contributions of this book offers a comprehensive approach of all these challenging and significant issues written from different and distinct research and academic traditions.

Author : Pablo Luis Peri,Francis Dube,Alexandre Varella
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319241098

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Silvopastoral Systems in Southern South America by Pablo Luis Peri,Francis Dube,Alexandre Varella Pdf

This multi-authored volume contains peer-reviewed chapters from leading researchers and professionals in silvopastoral systems topic in Southern South America (Argentina, Chile and South Brazil). It is a compendium of original research articles, case studies, and regional overviews and summarizes the current state of knowledge on different components and aspects (pasture production, animal production, trees production, carbon sequestration, conservation) of silvopatoral systems in native forests and tree plantations. The main hypothesis of the book is that farmers have integrated tree and pasture/grassland species in their land use systems to reach higher production per unit of land area, risk avoidance, product diversification, and sustainability. These production systems also impact positively in main ecosystem processes. Management of these productive systems, Policy and Socioeconomic Aspects provide great opportunities and challenges for farmers and policy makers in our region. The book is unique on this subject in Southern South America and constitutes a valuable reference material for graduate students, professors, scientists and extensionists who work with silvopastoral systems.

Author : James N. Levitt
Publisher : Lincoln Inst of Land Policy
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1558443010

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Conservation Catalysts by James N. Levitt Pdf

"This multi-author volume explores large-landscape conservation projects catalyzed by colleges, universities, independent field stations, and research organizations around the world. These initiatives are grand-scale, cross-boundary, cross-sectoral, and cross-disciplinary efforts to protect working and wild landscapes and waterscapes in Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Kenya, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, and the United States"--

Author : Jonathan Fox
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801427169

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The Politics of Food in Mexico by Jonathan Fox Pdf

Compares a range of Mexican food policy reforms, focusing on the SAM (Mexican Food System), a program in place from 1980-82, designed to shift subsidies and privileged access from large private farmers and ranchers to peasants and small producers. In this context, Fox (political science, MIT) examines the limits and possibilities of political reform, and its history and future in the Mexican state. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Christine Hünefeldt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520378247

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Paying the Price of Freedom by Christine Hünefeldt Pdf

Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and notarial records—including the testimony of the slaves themselves—she uncovers the various strategies slaves invented to gain their freedom. Hünefeldt pays particular attention to marriage relations and family life. Slaves used their family solidarity as a strategy, while slaveowners used the conflicts within families to prevent manumission. The author's focus on gender relations between slaveowners and slaves, as well as between slaves, is particularly original. Her eye for ethnographic detail and her perceptive reading of the documentary evidence make this book a rich and important contribution to the study of slavery in Latin America. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Author : Andres Moreira-Munoz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048187485

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Plant Geography of Chile by Andres Moreira-Munoz Pdf

The first and so far only Plant Geography of Chile was written about 100 years ago, since when many things have changed: plants have been renamed and reclassified; taxonomy and systematics have experienced deep changes as have biology, geography, and biogeography. The time is therefore ripe for a new look at Chile’s plants and their distribution. Focusing on three key issues – botany/systematics, geography and biogeographical analysis – this book presents a thoroughly updated synthesis both of Chilean plant geography and of the different approaches to studying it. Because of its range – from the neotropics to the temperate sub-Antarctic – Chile’s flora provides a critical insight into evolutionary patterns, particularly in relation to the distribution along the latitudinal profiles and the global geographical relationships of the country’s genera. The consequences of these relations for the evolution of the Chilean Flora are discussed. This book will provide a valuable resource for both graduate students and researchers in botany, plant taxonomy and systematics, biogeography, evolutionary biology and plant conservation.