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Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
Facility•Mexico City, Mexico•
About: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas is a facility organization based out in Mexico City, Mexico. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Politics & Government. The organization has 645 authors who have published 1806 publications receiving 28351 citations. The organization is also known as: Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas & Center for Research and Teaching in Economics.
Topics: Politics, Government, Population, Latin Americans, Democracy
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04 Jan 2012
TL;DR: Eight critical factors are identified that form the basis of an integrative framework that can be used to examine how local governments are envisioning smart city initiatives and suggest directions and agendas for smart city research and outlines practical implications for government professionals.
Abstract: Making a city "smart" is emerging as a strategy to mitigate the problems generated by the urban population growth and rapid urbanization. Yet little academic research has sparingly discussed the phenomenon. To close the gap in the literature about smart cities and in response to the increasing use of the concept, this paper proposes a framework to understand the concept of smart cities. Based on the exploration of a wide and extensive array of literature from various disciplinary areas we identify eight critical factors of smart city initiatives: management and organization, technology, governance, policy context, people and communities, economy, built infrastructure, and natural environment. These factors form the basis of an integrative framework that can be used to examine how local governments are envisioning smart city initiatives. The framework suggests directions and agendas for smart city research and outlines practical implications for government professionals.
2,000 citations
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TL;DR: This article reviewed the recent empirical literature on teacher recruitment and retention published in the United States and examined the characteristics of individuals who enter and remain in the teaching profession, characteristics of schools and districts that successfully recruit and retain teachers, and the types of policies that show evidence of efficacy in recruiting and retaining teachers.
Abstract: This article critically reviews the recent empirical literature on teacher recruitment and retention published in the United States. It examines the characteristics of individuals who enter and remain in the teaching profession, the characteristics of schools and districts that successfully recruit and retain teachers, and the types of policies that show evidence of efficacy in recruiting and retaining teachers. The goal of the article is to provide researchers and policymakers with a review that is comprehensive, evaluative, and up to date. The review of the empirical studies selected for discussion is intended to serve not only as a compendium of available recent research on teacher recruitment and retention but also as a guide to the merit and importance of these studies.
1,244 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce imperfect creditor protection in a multi-country version of Schumpeterian growth theory with technology transfer, and show that the likelihood of converging to the U.S. growth rate increases with financial development.
Abstract: We introduce imperfect creditor protection in a multi-country version of Schumpeterian growth theory with technology transfer. The theory predicts that the growth rate of any country with more than some critical level of financial development will converge to the growth rate of the world technology frontier, and that all other countries will have a strictly lower long-run growth rate. The theory also predicts that in a country that converges to the frontier growth rate, financial development has a positive but eventually vanishing effect on steady-state per-capita GDP relative to the frontier. We present cross-country evidence supporting these two implications. In particular, we find a significant and sizeable effect of an interaction term between initial per-capita GDP (relative to the United States) and a financial intermediation measure in an otherwise standard growth regression, implying that the likelihood of converging to the U.S. growth rate increases with financial development. We also find that, as predicted by the theory, the direct effect of financial intermediation in this regression is not significantly different from zero. These findings are robust to alternative conditioning sets, estimation procedures and measures of financial development.
969 citations
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TL;DR: The Payment for Hydrological Environmental Services (PSAH) Program as mentioned in this paper was designed to complement other policy responses to the crisis at the interface of these problems, where the Mexican federal government pays participating forest owners for the benefits of watershed protection and aquifer recharge in areas where commercial forestry is not currently competitive.
571 citations
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Harvard University1, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center2, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas3, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul4, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul5, University of the Republic6, Union for International Cancer Control7, National Autonomous University of Mexico8, King's College London9, Pan American Health Organization10, Federal University of São Paulo11, University of Virginia12, University of Chicago13, Massachusetts Institute of Technology14, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine15, Johns Hopkins University16, East Jefferson General Hospital17, Hoffmann-La Roche18, PATH19, University of Milan20, Hospital Maciel21, University of Tennessee Health Science Center22, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital23, International Atomic Energy Agency24, University of Buenos Aires25, University of São Paulo26, Universidad de La Sabana27, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center28, University of Houston29, GlaxoSmithKline30, American Cancer Society31
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the findings of their Cancer Commission and their recommendations to encourage Latin American stakeholders to redouble their efforts to address this increasing cancer burden and to prevent it from worsening and threatening their societies.
Abstract: Non-communicable diseases, including cancer, are overtaking infectious disease as the leading health-care threat in middle-income and low-income countries. Latin American and Caribbean countries are struggling to respond to increasing morbidity and death from advanced disease. Health ministries and health-care systems in these countries face many challenges caring for patients with advanced cancer: inadequate funding; inequitable distribution of resources and services; inadequate numbers, training, and distribution of health-care personnel and equipment; lack of adequate care for many populations based on socioeconomic, geographic, ethnic, and other factors; and current systems geared toward the needs of wealthy, urban minorities at a cost to the entire population. This burgeoning cancer problem threatens to cause widespread suffering and economic peril to the countries of Latin America. Prompt and deliberate actions must be taken to avoid this scenario. Increasing efforts towards prevention of cancer and avoidance of advanced, stage IV disease will reduce suffering and mortality and will make overall cancer care more affordable. We hope the findings of our Commission and our recommendations will inspire Latin American stakeholders to redouble their efforts to address this increasing cancer burden and to prevent it from worsening and threatening their societies.
418 citations
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Adam Jones | 53 | 232 | 9101 |
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia | 39 | 256 | 8942 |
Erik Lichtenberg | 37 | 148 | 5645 |
Stefano M. Bertozzi | 37 | 102 | 4856 |
Miguel Rodrigues | 35 | 181 | 3928 |
Kevin B. Grier | 31 | 77 | 5161 |
Juan Pablo Gutiérrez | 30 | 104 | 2916 |
Jorge Durand | 29 | 88 | 7373 |
Andreas Schedler | 28 | 66 | 6007 |
Sveinung Sandberg | 28 | 91 | 2510 |
Susan W. Parker | 27 | 74 | 2928 |
Steffen Kallbekken | 23 | 68 | 2073 |
James Ron | 23 | 52 | 3463 |
Dagobert L. Brito | 22 | 81 | 1784 |
Fabrice Lehoucq | 22 | 68 | 2163 |