Drought to exacerbate Central America social problems

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Central America ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Gang Activity ◽  
The Social

Subject Drought in Central America. Significance Intensifying drought in the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras has had a devastating effect on crop production and food stocks, exacerbating the social challenges facing communities and authorities. Impacts NGOs will increasingly cooperate regionwide to deal with drought. Already strained agricultural sectors will be particularly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters such as hurricanes. Increased migration to cities from affected areas will exacerbate urban gang activity. Migration within Central America will increasingly focus Costa Rican attention on the issue.

Assessing universities’ social sustainability: accounting for stakeholder value

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Ayuso ◽  
Xavier Carbonell ◽  
Laia Serradell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sustainability Principles

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess higher education institutions’ (HEIs) social sustainability by applying Integrated Social Value (ISV) analysis to eight universities belonging to the Catalan Association of Public Universities in Spain. Design/methodology/approach ISV analysis is a social accounting methodology that considers both the economic value and the social value created for all the organisation’s stakeholders through a participatory and systematic process. Findings The authors have shown that ISV analysis can be effective to assess the impacts on social sustainability of HEIs. The monetised results facilitate understanding about the valued impacts and allow integration with the universities’ financial data. Research limitations/implications The research advances the under-researched topic of social sustainability assessment in higher education. Practical implications Quantifying universities’ social impacts in monetary terms may help to transform conventional financial accounting and improve HEIs’ internal strategy and management according to sustainability principles. Social implications The process of measuring the social value created by universities provides a way to meet the rising demands for greater accountability and transparency and facilitates engagement with stakeholders on how these institutions are contributing to sustainable development. Originality/value ISV analysis represents an innovative approach to assess how HEIs create benefits for its internal and external stakeholders and contribute to solutions to social challenges.

Refugee surge creates Belize security fears

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central American ◽  
Drug Trade ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Gang Activity ◽  
To Receive

Subject Belize migration and security. Significance High levels of gang-related violence, and a tougher approach to migration in the United States, have sparked a surge in refugees seeking to enter Belize from the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. However, Belizean authorities are reluctant to receive them, citing concerns about the potential for increased gang activity. Impacts Belize’s location could see it become an important transit point in the international drug trade. There is potential for conflict between Central American and Belizean gangs. Costa Rica’s strong institutions make it relatively well equipped to deal with an influx of refugees.

COVID-19 will hit northern Central America hard

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Central America ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
External Support ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multilateral Aid ◽  
Drug Sales ◽  
Prison Overcrowding ◽  
Western European

Subject COVID-19. Significance COVID-19 case numbers in Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras remain low by western European and US standards but are probably underestimated. All three countries’ governments implemented nationwide curfews at an early stage in the pandemic, ordering the closure of non-essential businesses. However, factors such as poverty, prison overcrowding and the continuation of US deportations perpetuate contagion risks, threatening the region’s fragile healthcare systems. Impacts Mobility restrictions will reduce gangs’ capacity to extort, pushing them towards other crimes such as robbery and drug sales. Escalating poverty will prompt fresh outbreaks of violence and popular unrest once the lockdowns come to an end. External support for both fiscal accounts and balances of payments will be key to overcoming the crisis. Corruption opportunities will increase as governments enact fiscal measures to address the crisis and countries receive multilateral aid.

Peru floods may bring economic woes, political gains

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Social Suffering ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Social

Significance Landslides and flooding the length of the Pacific coast of Peru have caused widespread damage to housing and infrastructure, revealing the vulnerability of the country’s largest cities to natural disasters. For President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s administration, the crisis brings short-term political respite, but also new problems of how to respond effectively to the social suffering caused. Impacts Responding to the crisis will involve reconfiguring this year’s budget, particularly increasing public investment. Spending priorities in other areas will make it hard to grapple with long-term preventative work. As one of the world’s most exposed countries to climate change, the costs of adaptation will be large.

Prospects for Central America/Caribbean in 2018

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Central America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Caribbean

Subject Prospects for Central America and the Caribbean in 2018. Significance Most countries in Central America and the Caribbean (CA/C) grew above the Latin American average in 2017, with low oil prices and the recuperation of the US economy helping to drive positive economic outcomes. Challenges still facing the sub-region include corruption, high public debt and the negative impact of natural disasters.

Fostering Social Innovation through E-Collaboration

2014 ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Ayla Esen
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Increasing awareness in social problems and the high complexity of social challenges has boosted social innovation efforts in recent years. Social innovation refers to new and innovative solutions to social problems that create social value, involve public good, and affect the society, mostly developed by participation of stakeholders who have interests in the problem. Social innovation leads to social value created through a series of collaborative efforts of public, private, and non-governmental organizations. This chapter highlights the importance of collaboration in social innovation and examines the role of e-collaboration as a group coordination and communication mechanism in the social innovation processes. The first part of the chapter presents evidence on what social innovation is and describes how social innovation intertwines with collaboration. The second part of the chapter defines the key conceptual elements of e-collaboration and explores how e-collaboration can foster social innovation concerning each conceptual element.

scholarly journals Efectos de aptitud combinatoria general e identificación de híbridos triples de maíz (Zea mays L.) grano blanco. Programa regional de maís (PRM), 1991

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Mario Fuentes ◽  
José Luis Quemé ◽  
Carlos Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Zea Mays ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Central America ◽  
Combining Ability ◽  
Zea Mays L ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
White Grain

The breeding of triple crosses with the combination of 24 white grain lines and four elite simple crosses, used as females in the breeding of the hybrids HB-83M, H-5, H-27 and DC-43 in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica, respectively, were evaluated in ten localities in Central America to determine the overall combining ability OCA of the germplasm developed by the Regional Corn Project. The results show an out standing superiority in the perfomance of the new hybrids bred, compared to the controls HB-83, H-5, H-27, HC-43, and the testers used. The highest yields were obtained at the Costa Rican localities with the hybrid 1188 x 1178 with 8.6 t/ha, and overyielded the control HC-43 by 35%. The OCA estimated identified 9 superior lines, among which the 1178, 1107, and 1150 stand out with values of 6,2, 6,1 and 6,0 t/ha, derived from the Pool 24 and the Population 25 from CYMMYT.

scholarly journals The Portrayal of Indonesian Image in 2007 Kompas Selected Short Stories: Social Problems, Criticisms and Hopes

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
Akun Akun
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Bertolt Brecht ◽  
Negative Dialectics ◽  
Negative Knowledge ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
The Social

Article aimed at exploring social problems reflected in 15 selected short stories printed in Kompas during 2007 both explicitly and implicitly. Specifically, this research is focused on the mapping of dominant social problems raised by the short stories, the social criticisms strongly voiced by the authors and the hopes of a better situation implicitly reflected in these interesting short stories. This study applies the Defamiliarization Effect promoted by Bertolt Brecht and Negative Dialectics or Negative Knowledge by Theodor Adorno, specifically in analyzing the literary works as a criticism tool. The result of the research shows that phenomena of social problems current lately in Indonesian context like identity, poverty, corruption, religious tensions, moral degradation, politics dirtiness, minority group problems, social security, natural disasters and the like are clearly seen and teased in these writings.

Fostering Social Innovation through E-Collaboration

2017 ◽  
pp. 54-67
Author(s):  
Ayla Esen
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Increasing awareness in social problems and the high complexity of social challenges has boosted social innovation efforts in recent years. Social innovation refers to new and innovative solutions to social problems that create social value, involve public good, and affect the society, mostly developed by participation of stakeholders who have interests in the problem. Social innovation leads to social value created through a series of collaborative efforts of public, private, and non-governmental organizations. This chapter highlights the importance of collaboration in social innovation and examines the role of e-collaboration as a group coordination and communication mechanism in the social innovation processes. The first part of the chapter presents evidence on what social innovation is and describes how social innovation intertwines with collaboration. The second part of the chapter defines the key conceptual elements of e-collaboration and explores how e-collaboration can foster social innovation concerning each conceptual element.

Remittances to grow in Mexico and Central America

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Central America ◽  
Private Consumption ◽  
Central American ◽  
Single Digit ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us

Subject With the dollar strengthening against many local currencies, remittances are on the rise. Significance The strengthening of the dollar has seen remittance figures in Mexico and Central America rise recently. While the weight of remittances varies greatly across Latin America, Mexico is by far the most important recipient in the region. However, the weight of remittance transfers in the Mexican economy only has a significant impact in certain areas, while in several Central American countries, notably El Salvador, they are vital to overall private consumption. Impacts As the US economy gathers strength, remittances should continue to grow, albeit at single-digit rates. While the economic relevance of remittances should decline in Mexico, it will continue increasing in Central America. Governments are faced with the challenge of redirecting the use of remittances from spending to investment.

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