Intraregional Spillovers in South America: Is Brazil Systemic After All?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Unusual cause of recurrent fever after travel in South America
Fever in returning travelers is a common problem and usually the diagnosis is made within a few days or the traveler recovers. We present two travelers who presented with fever two weeks after returning from a six week vacation in South America. Over the following 18 months they presented with short attacks of fever, elevated CRP and leukocytosis and the program for investigation became more an...
متن کاملFire-Sale Spillovers and Systemic Risk
We construct a new systemic risk measure that quantifies vulnerability to fire-sale spillovers using detailed regulatory balance sheet data for U.S. commercial banks and repo market data for broker-dealers. Even for moderate shocks in normal times, fire-sale externalities can be substantial. For commercial banks, a 1 percent exogenous shock to assets in 2013:Q1 produces fire-sale externalities ...
متن کاملMalaria in South America: The Target is Close
The article published by Quispe and others outlines Peru’s three strategic plans to eliminate malaria in the Peruvian Amazon region. It is a significant achievement for Peru to implement a plan to eradicate malaria in the Amazon region, where the greater percentages of cases of malaria in Peru are concentrated. Malaria has devastating effects on the health and way of life of the people all over...
متن کاملEthnobotanical Knowledge Is Vastly Under-Documented in Northwestern South America
A main objective of ethnobotany is to document traditional knowledge about plants before it disappears. However, little is known about the coverage of past ethnobotanical studies and thus about how well the existing literature covers the overall traditional knowledge of different human groups. To bridge this gap, we investigated ethnobotanical data-collecting efforts across four countries (Colo...
متن کاملThe Paleoparasitology in Brazil and Findings in Human Remains from South America: A Review
The review article presents some of the history of how paleoparasitology started in Brazil, making highlight the great responsible Dr. Luiz Fernando Ferreira and Dr. Adauto Araújo, the trajectory of paleoparasitology in Brazil since 1978 and its performance in science to the present day. In sequence, it is made a presentation of parasitological findings on human remains found in archaeological ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The World Economy
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0378-5920
DOI: 10.1111/twec.12094