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An archipelago of excellence?: autonomous capacity among Brazilian state agencies
(2012-02)
Drawing on the Brazilian case, this paper develops a new measure of state capacity for evaluating the performance of specific bureaucratic agencies within national states. The measure, which is made possible by the rising ...
Contributions and limits of the ‘childhood studies’ for the research of the children’s agency in Latin America
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019-11)
This paper recovers some theoretical elements of the sociology of childhoodin the Anglo-Saxon field, to discuss their contributions, scopes and limitsabout child agency in children living in poor and urban contexts, in ...
SPAACE - South-American program and aerospace agency for cooperation and exploration
(International Astronautical Federation, IAF, 2017-09)
The ability to develop aerospace technology can also represent in a certain way the technological capacity, the level of development, and the economic capability of a country. The aerospace development requires enormous ...
Review of the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Enabling Child-Centred Agency
(Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. Sede Ecuador, 2018)
The Agency of Textile Technology in Some Archaeological Ritual Contexts of Northwest Argentina
(American Research Institute for Policy Development, 2014-12)
I concentrate here on the agency of textiles, through certain technical features, to produce a range of social actions and effects when they intervene in the contexts of specific cultural practices. This “power” (in terms ...
State capacity and institutional coordination in the building of specialized agencies. The case of the National Agency for Road Safety (ANSV) in Argentina.Creación de agencias especializadas, capacidad estatal y coordinación interinstitucional. Análisis del caso de la Agencia Nacional de Seguridad Vial de Argentina.
(Universidad Nacional de Lanús, 2013)
Not Raised ‘To Make Big Decisions’: Young People’s Agency and Livelihoods in Rural Pakistan
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022)
What drives capacity to innovate? Insights from women and men small-scale farmers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
(Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security, 2018)