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The Disconnect Between Knowledge and Perceptions: A Study of Fishermen’s Local Ecological Knowledge and Their Perception of the State of Fisheries and How These Are Managed in the Dominican Republic
Understanding what fishers know about the ecology of the fish they catch, and how they perceive the state and management of their fisheries can guide...
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The Right to a Complete Life: Struggles of the Dominican Feminist Movement
In 1932, Dominican feminist leader Abigail Mejía said that all feminists wanted was for women to have the right to live “a complete life”. Against...
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Giving Birth While Facing Death: Cesarean Sections and Community Violence in Latin America
Armed conflict and organized crime are known to be linked to numerous negative maternal and neonatal health outcomes, such as stillbirth, low birth...
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Et Tu, Brute? Wealth Inequality and the Political Economy of Authoritarian Replacement
What motivates elite factions to seek to replace an authoritarian incumbent? In this article, I provide a political economy theory of authoritarian...
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Is the Country Where a Child Lives Explanatory for Exposure to Physical Punishments? Examining Patterns on the Island of Hispaniola
Determining if where a child lives (country in the case of this study) is explanatory for exposure to physical punishments is often complicated by...
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Introduction
This chapter presents a review of the literature on women’s rights movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, and a comparative analysis of the...
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Structuralizing Culture: Multicultural Neoliberalism, Migration, and Mental Health in Santiago, Chile
The arrival of Afro-descendant migrants, mainly from Haiti and the Dominican Republic, has led to the emergence of new discourses on migration,...
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Heritage, Birthplace, Age at Migration, and Education as Life Course Mechanisms Influencing Cognitive Aging Among Latinos
Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of older adults in the United States and are at high risk for cognitive impairment (CI). Although research on...
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The Stonemasons’ Marks in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo, the First Cathedral of the New World
In the Middle Ages and early modern period, masons inscribed symbols on dressed stonework and ashlars to identify the work of the individual or team...
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Does Financial Inclusion Diminish Poverty and Inequality? A Panel Data Analysis for Latin American Countries
Despite great developmental efforts in recent decades, Latin America still presents high levels of poverty and inequality when compared to developed...
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Impact Investing
Impact investing, particularly related to tropical coral reef conservation, is a relatively new class of emerging conservation financing instruments....
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Women’s Rights in Movement Dynamics of Feminist Change in Latin America and the Caribbean
This book provides an updated comparative overview of women’s movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, filling some of the gaps left by the...
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Back and Forth: An Analysis of the Processes of Transnationalization of Women’s Work and the Internationalization of Early Childhood Policies in Uruguay
This paper aims to address the interaction between two processes: in the first place, the formation and integration of regional circuits of human...
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Constructing Social Vulnerability Indexes with Increased Data and Machine Learning Highlight the Importance of Wealth Across Global Contexts
We consider the availability of new harmonized data sources and novel machine learning methodologies in the construction of a social vulnerability...
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Whose Citizens, What Rights? Roles and Responsibilities in Addressing Displacement and Forced Migration in Haiti
Over the past 10 years, a new impetus in addressing statelessness and protecting the stateless population led to stronger state commitments, and...
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Economic Development and Adolescent Wellbeing in 139 Countries
There is a positive association between the level of economic development and national levels of overall life satisfaction (OLS) in the adult...
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Cocoa: Origin Differentials and the Living Income Differential
Commercial transactions in the cocoa market are at prices based on the futures marker plus an origin differential. In July 2019, the governments of...
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Parallel Leisure Sport Activities Diversity with Economic, Social and Human Development Indicators
The purpose of this study attempts to borrow the accepted justification of current extant economic, social and human development indicators to give a...
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Improving Health in the Caribbean Region: Challenges and Opportunities
This chapter provides an extensive evaluation of the health status in the Caribbean region prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. It meticulously examines...
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Pathways to Mobility: Family and Education in the Lives of Latinx Youth
In the context of US higher education, the collective advancement of low-income youth, especially youth of color, has been limited. Latinxs are...