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Publication date: 27 August 2016

Trading Places: A Decade of Earnings Mobility in Chile and Nicaragua

Rafael Novella, Laura Ripani, Agustina Suaya, Luis Tejerina and Claudia Vazquez

Using longitudinal datasets from Chile and Nicaragua, we compare intragenerational earnings mobility over a decade for two economies with similar inequality levels but…

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Using longitudinal datasets from Chile and Nicaragua, we compare intragenerational earnings mobility over a decade for two economies with similar inequality levels but divergent positions in equality of opportunities within the Latin American region. Our results suggest that earnings mobility, in terms of origin independence of individual ranking in the earnings distribution, is greater in Chile than in Nicaragua.

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Income Inequality Around the World
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0147-912120160000044013
ISBN: 978-1-78560-943-5

Keywords

  • Earnings mobility
  • Rankings
  • Chile
  • Nicaragua
  • D31
  • J3
  • J6
  • O54

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Book part
Publication date: 26 November 2014

The Mayangna Resolve to Save the Rainforest, their Homelands

Nan Marie Greer

For over 40 years in Nicaragua, the Mayangna indigenous group has fought for legal rights to traditional lands with the expressed purpose of protecting their rainforest…

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For over 40 years in Nicaragua, the Mayangna indigenous group has fought for legal rights to traditional lands with the expressed purpose of protecting their rainforest. On December 21, 2009, the last of nine Mayangna territories were granted rights by Nicaragua to a majority of their historical claims, in addition to rights to have illegal colonists removed by Nicaraguan police and military. Indigenous leaders pursued land rights as a measure for cultural survival and the protection of their broadleaf rainforest, also the site of a UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve, the BOSAWAS. While Indigenous lands are encroached upon by the frontline of imperialistic consumerism, people like the Mayangna ask for international and national respect for their autonomy, self-determination, land ownership, and even sovereignty.

The Mayangna lead the way to understand necessary steps for protecting the rainforest. Their actions demonstrate the possibility for social justice given respect for true ecologically sustainability. To begin, they fought to obtain ownership of their homelands, thereafter, they battled legally and even with their lives to defend their boundaries and everything within them. The Mayangna insist indigenous land ownership, the protection of their rights, and a respect for their traditional forms of management lead to the continued protection of the rainforest and other areas critical to the survival of the global ecosystem.

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Occupy the Earth: Global Environmental Movements
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2051-503020140000015004
ISBN: 978-1-78350-697-2

Keywords

  • Conservation
  • human rights
  • indigenous land rights
  • Mayangna
  • Nicaragua
  • U.N.D.R.I.P

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Article
Publication date: 1 April 1988

Augusto César Sandino, 1895–1934

Rhonda L. Neugebauer

On 1 January 1929, Augusto César Sandino wrote his now famous declaration that aptly summarizes both the Sandino and the Frente Sandinista de Liberatión Nacional (FSLN…

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On 1 January 1929, Augusto César Sandino wrote his now famous declaration that aptly summarizes both the Sandino and the Frente Sandinista de Liberatión Nacional (FSLN, the Sandinista National Liberation Front) positions on the issue of foreign domination. He issued the statement in response to a letter from the officer commanding American forces in Nicaragua, Admiral D. F. Sellers. When Sellers suggested that Sandino's resistance would serve “no useful purpose,” Sandino replied:

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Reference Services Review, vol. 16 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049040
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Article
Publication date: 1 January 1986

The Central American Conflict: A Bibliography

Cathy Seitz

Until recently, most North Americans thought of Central America as the land of bananas and exotic vacations. Today, government, media, and public concern are focused on…

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Until recently, most North Americans thought of Central America as the land of bananas and exotic vacations. Today, government, media, and public concern are focused on the region's instability and the United States' role in it. This “crisis” in Central America has generated a barrage of publications. Perhaps an appropriate title for this article would have been “Central America: Crisis in the Library.” The growing number of publications on Central America is matched by growing demand for them in both public and academic libraries. This bibliography will help librarians build an adequate and balanced collection on Central America without having to locate and examine each book.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048929
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Expert briefing
Publication date: 16 January 2019

Economic pressure on Nicaragua may wear Ortega down

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Nicaragua crisis.

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB241193

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Nicaragua
LA/C
Costa Rica
Mexico
United States
Topical
economy
international relations
politics
social
government
growth
opposition
police
protest
sanctions
security
civil war
crime
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Publication date: 14 May 2019

Ortega will see out his term in Nicaragua

Location:
NICARAGUA

Nicaragua unrest.

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB243840

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Geographic
Nicaragua
LA/C
United States
Venezuela
Topical
economy
international relations
politics
social
government
growth
human rights
opposition
police
protest
sanctions
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Article
Publication date: 12 March 2018

Ambition meets reality: lessons from the taro boom in Nicaragua

Jason Donovan, Nigel Poole, Keith Poe and Ingrid Herrera-Arauz

Between 2006 and 2011, Nicaragua shipped an average of US$9.4 million per year of smallholder-produced fresh taro (Colocasia esculenta) to the USA; however, by 2016, the…

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Purpose

Between 2006 and 2011, Nicaragua shipped an average of US$9.4 million per year of smallholder-produced fresh taro (Colocasia esculenta) to the USA; however, by 2016, the US market for Nicaraguan taro had effectively collapsed. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the short-lived taro boom from the perspective of complex adaptive systems, showing how shocks, interactions between value chain actors, and lack of adaptive capacity among chain actors together contributed to the collapse of the chain.

Design/methodology/approach

Primary data were collected from businesses and smallholders in 2010 and 2016 to understand the actors involved, their business relations, and the benefits and setbacks they experienced along the way.

Findings

The results show the capacity of better-off smallholders to engage in a demanding market, but also the struggles faced by more vulnerable smallholders to build new production systems and respond to internal and external shocks. Local businesses were generally unprepared for the uncertainties inherent in fresh horticultural trade or for engagement with distant buyers.

Research limitations/implications

Existing guides and tools for designing value chain interventions will benefit from greater attention to the circumstances of local actors and the challenges of building productive inter-business relations under higher levels of risk and uncertainty.

Originality/value

This case serves as a wake-up call for practitioners, donors, researchers, and the private sector on how to identify market opportunities and the design of more robust strategies to respond to them.

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Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, vol. 8 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JADEE-02-2017-0023
ISSN: 2044-0839

Keywords

  • Markets
  • Complex adaptive systems
  • Value chains
  • Cooperatives
  • Horticulture
  • Development programming
  • Rural livelihoods

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Article
Publication date: 10 May 2011

Of legitimate and illegitimate corruption: Bankruptcies in Nicaragua

Jose Luis Rocha, Ed Brown and Jonathan Cloke

The concept of corruption is frequently represented as relating to social practices that violate established rules and norms. This paper, however, seeks to demonstrate…

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Purpose

The concept of corruption is frequently represented as relating to social practices that violate established rules and norms. This paper, however, seeks to demonstrate that corrupt practices are often only possible because they in fact draw on existing institutional mechanisms and cultural dispositions that grant them a certain social approval and legitimacy. The paper aims to explore these issues through a detailed exploration of corruption in Nicaragua, which outlines how competing élite groups have been able to use different discourses to appropriate resources from the state in quite different ways, reflecting the use of contrasting mechanisms for justifying and legitimizing corruption.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper focuses on two key periods of recent Nicaraguan political history: that which occurred during the administration of ex‐President Arnoldo Alemán and the events that unfurled in the aftermath of a chain of bank bankruptcies that occurred in Nicaragua during 2001. These events are explored in the context of David Harvey's ideas of “accumulation by dispossession.”

Findings

In contrast with more classic practices of corruption in Nicaragua that have openly violated existing formal rules and norms but appealed to an ethos of redistribution and a historically‐specific concept of “the public” in order to imbue their actions with legitimacy, the corrupt practices related to recent banking bankruptcies engaged in an extensive instrumentalization of formal state institutions in order to protect élite parochial interests and to achieve “accumulation by dispossession” through appealing to the legitimating support granted by multilateral financial institutions.

Originality/value

The paper illustrates sharply the inadvisability of perspectives that narrowly define corruption in legalistic terms. Such perspectives focus exclusively on the state as the location of corruption, whereas clearly, in Nicaragua as elsewhere, corruption is a far more complicated phenomenon which crosses the artificial boundaries between private and public sectors. It also evolves and takes a myriad different forms which are intimately connected with the ongoing struggles for control of accumulation processes, suggesting a much more integral role for corruption within accumulation strategies than often allowed for in both orthodox economic and Marxist literatures on capital accumulation.

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Critical perspectives on international business, vol. 7 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/17422041111128230
ISSN: 1742-2043

Keywords

  • Corruption
  • Bankruptcy
  • Nicaragua

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Article
Publication date: 1 November 1987

Swedish Support for Libraries in Nicaragua

BIRGITTA BERGDAHL

Next year the Swedish government will include support for libraries in Nicaragua in the long‐term aid which Sweden gives to Nicaragua. The Swedish programme for…

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Next year the Swedish government will include support for libraries in Nicaragua in the long‐term aid which Sweden gives to Nicaragua. The Swedish programme for international development co‐operation is an essential part of Sweden's foreign policy. Budgetary appropriations amount to one per cent of the Gross National Product in accordance with a decision of the Parliament taken in 1968.

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New Library World, vol. 88 no. 11
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038739
ISSN: 0307-4803

Keywords

  • Libraries
  • Nicaragua
  • Sweden

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Case study
Publication date: 3 January 2017

iDE in Nicaragua: quest for sustainability

Vijaya L. Narapareddy, Nancy Sampson and S.R. Vishwanath

International Development Enterprises (iDE), a non-profit organization, won numerous awards for its poverty alleviation efforts through the sale of low-cost irrigation…

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Synopsis

International Development Enterprises (iDE), a non-profit organization, won numerous awards for its poverty alleviation efforts through the sale of low-cost irrigation technologies to the Base of Pyramid (BoP) farmers around the world. This case discusses iDE’s entry into Nicaragua and the challenges this global social enterprise faced in bringing drip irrigation and other water technologies to the rural subsistence coffee farmers in Nicaragua. It presents the tough decisions it faced in 2012 regarding the future of its for-profit social business, iDEal Tecnologias, in Nicaragua. This case captures the tension in hybrid social enterprises.

Research methodology

This case was developed through the following primary sources as well as some secondary sources. Primary: discussions with iDE’s CEO Doerksen, Urs Heierli (Coordinator of iDE’s operations in Nicaragua), and Skype conversations with iDEal Tec’s Country Director, Nadja Kränzlin. Secondary: documents provided by the company and other publicly available sources.

Relevant courses and levels

This case is intended for use in undergraduate, graduate, and executive courses in: social entrepreneurship, non-profit management, and managing sustainable businesses. It may also be used in the sustainability module of courses in international business/management/marketing, and business strategy and policy. It would be best to position this case toward the middle or latter half of the course as it is an integrative case that challenges students to evaluate the sustainability of a social enterprise from multiple perspectives.

Theoretical bases

The theoretical bases for this case are: defining and implementing a sustainable strategy in hybrid social enterprises. Serving BoP customers with a vision of enabling prosperity.

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The CASE Journal, vol. 13 no. 1
Type: Case Study
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/TCJ-06-2015-0018
ISSN: 1544-9106

Keywords

  • Poverty alleviation
  • Hybrid social enterprise models
  • Sustainability of social enterprises

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