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The National Secretary for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation in Ecuador (locally SENESCYT) started an ambitious grants program in 2011. The main objective of…

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Juan Ponce y Nilo M. Cedeño
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At the end of 2013 a compulsory inspection policy was introduced in Quito-Ecuador to ensure that new buildings complied with seismic resistant design requirements. This policy…

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Juan Ponce y Andrés Salazar
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A solid middle class can provide the backbone for more stable societies and sustained welfare. Ecuador’s experience, alike that witnessed elsewhere in LA, has yet to reach that…

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Juan Ponce, Rob Vos y Jose Rosero Moncayo
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This paper offers new evidence and methods for understanding the distributive effect of a universal government policy to eliminate user fees in public universities in Ecuador. The…

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Juan Ponce y Yessenia Loayza
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This paper identifies spatial patterns of body mass index (BMI) and obesity in the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador, by applying spatial autocorrelation. We identified BMI…

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Pablo Cabrera-Barbona, Myriam Paredes y Donald Cole
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Hacer un balance crítico de los diez años de vigencia de la Ley Orgánica de Régimen de Soberanía Alimentaria es uno de los objetivos principales que han propuesto los autores de…

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Myriam Paredes, Priscila Prado y Stephen Sherwood
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The sustainability of food systems is recognized as important, but to move towards sustainability individuals must play a larger role, becoming responsible food consumers. Based…

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Myriam Paredes, Donald C. Cole, Fabian Muñoz, Gabriel April- Lalonde, Yubari Valero, Priscila Prado Beltrán, Laura Boada, Peter R. Berti y Ekomer project team
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En este capítulo realizamos un balance de los estudios agroalimentarios en Ecuador para el período 2000-2019. El término agroalimentario se refiere a los análisis enfocados en la…

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Myriam Paredes, Sara Latorre y Priscila Prado
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O projeto de pesquisa “Fortalecendo o impacto da Campanha de Consumo de Alimentos Saudáveis: 250.000 famílias no Equador” surge com o objetivo de fornecer um retorno sobre as…

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Myriam Paredes, Priscila Prado, Yubari Valero e Donald Cole
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El método generalizado de los momentos (GMM) es un poderoso instrumento de estimación de parámetros estadísticos. En la actualidad se conocen las propiedades asintóticas de los…

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Wilson Pérez Oviedo
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¿Qué tan natural es para el ser humano ceder su responsabilidad y su libertad a una autoridad superior? Mucho, contestan grandes literatos como Dostoyevsky o García Marquez, o…

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Wilson Pérez Oviedo
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Al revisar los estudios del comercio internacional desde un enfoque de redes, encontramos una falta de contenido economico en los indicadores utilizados. Ante tal carencia, el…

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Wilson Pérez Oviedo, John Cajas Guijarro
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