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This article analyses the technical efficiency of coffee production in Nicaragua. We apply a stochastic frontier model to estimate the technical efficiency which reaches 60%; this means that Nicaraguan coffee producers have chances to improve the way they get things done. This level of...
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The reorientation occurred in the socioeconomic, politic and institutional development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries, since 80's decade, provoke significant transformations in the regional rural spaces. The socioeconomic bipolarization is one of the most remarkable phenomena in...
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The appearance of information and communication technologies (ICT) in business and in general in all areas of social life is making a deep mark on technological change and progress. The use of the modern technologies of the Information and Communication Society is opening a new gate to progress...
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This article puts forward an explanation of climate change within the context of global change. Climate change can be seen as the spearhead; as a manifestation of the increasing unsustainability of planet Earth. We consider some of the effects of this change, examining its uneven impact on...
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This paper provides a conceptual review of the term “sustainable development”, bearing in mind its current applicability to social matters and public decision-making. Taking the well-known definition of sustainable development coined by the Brundtland Commission over twenty years ago, we...
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In addition to its traditional purpose of producing food and raw materials, agriculture plays an important role in terms of supplying public goods, generally in the form of externalities deriving from farming activities. These goods may be predominantly economic and social –rural...
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El cambio climático es una realidad inequívoca. Sus impactos en el mediano y ellargo plazo constituyen la más grave amenaza para la supervivencia de las próximasgeneraciones. Y en el corto plazo, los países en vía de desarrollo, que en su mayoríase encuentran en el trópico y por tanto...
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La teoría económica de la paradoja de la abundancia" plantea que los países que centran su actividad económica en la explotación de recursos naturales tienen menores tasas de crecimiento en el largo plazo. El presente documento presenta nueva evidencia empírica de este hecho estilizado,...
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Spanish Abstract: En el Índice Global de Impunidad Ambiental México (2020) se desarrolla una metodología cuantitativa para medir los niveles de dicha categoría. Siguiendo la criminología verde se define impunidad ambiental, en un sentido amplio, para integrar la imposibilidad de investigar,...
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Spanish Abstract: El objetivo de la presente investigación es identificar y analizar los factores que pueden ser consideradas de gestión ambiental en la micro y pequeñas empresas procesadoras de alimentos ubicadas en el municipio de Puebla, así como determinar qué acciones están...
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