• Despite cultural differences and political instability, Latin America is already the second main destination of China's outward foreign direct investment (OFDI), only behind Asia. (ub.edu)
  • Although natural resource-seeking has been the traditional motivation for Chinese firms doing business in Latin America, market-seeking is also becoming an increasingly important driver. (ub.edu)
  • The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of host country factors on the location decisions of Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Latin America. (ub.edu)
  • Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (ub.edu)
  • 2007. Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy, 2006-2007 . (ub.edu)
  • Santiago de Chile: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). (ub.edu)
  • At Tribes, we use our personal experiences and knowledge to create your luxury tailor-made holiday in Africa, Latin America or the Indian subcontinent. (tribes.co.uk)
  • The burden of GBC by age standardized rate was highest in Latin America (Bolivia and Chile) and Southeast Asia (Bangladesh and Nepal). (bvsalud.org)
  • I made the original focus holy ground in South America. (tparents.org)
  • This panel invites papers concerned with any aspect of plantation and post-plantation literatures from the Caribbean to South America to the American South. (upenn.edu)
  • However, small bodies of Spanish conquistadors, with large armies of indigenous Americans groups, managed to conquer these states. (usa-printables.com)
  • Indigenous people of North America are a vital key to unlocking the history of the continent. (thebump.com)
  • Some records state that the Indigenous people were in North America for as long as 15,000 years ago, with the potential to be actually 20,000. (thebump.com)
  • A Native American baby girl, boy, or gender-neutral name inspired by some Indigenous heroes could be the perfect start to baby's journey. (thebump.com)
  • His debut novel was There There , which detailed the experiences of Indigenous Americans living an urban life. (thebump.com)
  • A historian writes that naming their first slave ship Desire was "symbolic of New England's desire to make money as transporters of slaves into the various North American and Caribbean colonies. (lithub.com)
  • I grew up in South Dakota in the mid-fifties and sixties, and Native Americans were at the very bottom of the social pecking order. (metafilter.com)
  • The first episode focused on the American Revolution, and this week's second episode was devoted to the history of Native Americans before Columbus and during the early colonial era. (jasoncolavito.com)
  • Loewen, for example, asserted that Native Americans arrived in Roman Europe by ship around 60 BCE, a story I proved false. (jasoncolavito.com)
  • Thus it was Native Americans rather than Africans who were the first cargo on the first American-built slave ship. (lithub.com)
  • As the numbers of Native Americans declined, the population of Africans in the New World soared. (lithub.com)
  • Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1770-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. (loc.gov)
  • A surge in visitors to America's public lands through the years has led to an accumulation of wear and tear,' said DU CEO Adam Putnam. (ducks.org)
  • These new investments will boost America's outdoor recreation industry, which generates $887 billion annually and supports 7.6 million American jobs. (ducks.org)
  • Ducks Unlimited Inc. is the world's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving North America's continually disappearing waterfowl habitats. (ducks.org)
  • Established in 1937, Ducks Unlimited has conserved more than 14.5 million acres thanks to contributions from more than a million supporters across the continent. (ducks.org)
  • When Europeans began to invade North America in the 17th century, they saw the vast green woods as forbidding and spiritually dead. (scseagrant.org)
  • Europeans nevertheless saw spiritual opportunities in North America. (scseagrant.org)
  • For some centuries after Christopher Columbus' voyages opened the Americas to large-scale colonization by Europeans, it was unclear whether these stories represented real voyages by the Norse to North America. (usa-printables.com)
  • At least a million Europeans were enslaved by North African pirates alone from 1500 to 1800, and some European slaves were still being sold on the auction blocks in Egypt, years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed blacks in the United States. (billmuehlenberg.com)
  • Ramaswami, an Indian American from California, was recognized for having founded the Mitty Advocacy Project, a network of over 1,000 students lobbying legislators to support bills that help the less fortunate by addressing social justice issues such as poverty and immigration. (usinpac.com)
  • Over the past decade, federal government studies have consistently shown that American Indian and Alaska Native women experience much higher levels of sexual violence than other women in the USA. (metafilter.com)
  • Data gathered by the US Department of Justice indicates that Native American and Alaska Native women are more than 2.5 times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than women in the USA in general. (metafilter.com)
  • Shocking though these statistics are, it is widely believed that they do not accurately portray the extent of sexual violence against Native American and Alaska Native women. (metafilter.com)
  • OMB requires five minimum categories: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. (easierwithpractice.com)
  • While the Norse colony in Greenland lasted for almost 500 years, the continental North American settlements were small and did not develop into permanent colonies. (usa-printables.com)
  • African-American economist and political commentator Thomas Sowell has often written about these issues. (billmuehlenberg.com)
  • The Honorable Cynthia A. Baldwin was the first African-American woman elected to the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas and only the second African-American woman to serve on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. (fulbright.org)
  • The Norse colonization of the Americas began as early as the 10th century, when Norse sailors (often referred to as Vikings) explored and settled areas of the North Atlantic, including the northeastern fringes of North America. (usa-printables.com)
  • Columbus in modern history is often called the European discoverer of America and the person who brought the Americas into the forefront of Europe's attention. (usa-printables.com)
  • History taught throughout the continent often begins with the areas' colonization. (thebump.com)
  • From those groups, Americans identity with ethnic groups that are even more specific. (easierwithpractice.com)
  • Long an area with distinctive maritime, military, ethnic and cultural connections to North America, the South West also contains a number of HE institutions with well-established American Studies programmes and expertise. (upenn.edu)
  • Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. (loc.gov)
  • She was one of the two first Native American women voted into Congress and the first LGBTQIA+ member to be elected in the state of Kansas. (thebump.com)
  • The Sk lholt-mapNorth America, by the name Winland, was first mentioned in written sources in a work by Adam of Bremen from approximately 1075. (usa-printables.com)
  • When we review the sources Conover's team used to tell their alternative story of early America, however, we find a little less than we might expect. (jasoncolavito.com)
  • It was not until the 13th and 14th centuries that the most important works about North America and the early Norse activities there, namely the Sagas of Icelanders, were put into writing. (usa-printables.com)
  • As of 2022, Fields sits on the Board of Directors for the National Urban Indian Alliance. (thebump.com)
  • The American Respiratory Alliance of Western Pennsylvania is dedicated to the prevention and control of lung disease through education, training, direct services, research funding, and advocacy since 1904. (cdc.gov)
  • It was not until the continent itself was explored that Spain found the wealth it had sought in the form of abundant gold. (usa-printables.com)
  • British blue bloods established the Royal Adventurers Company, and the plundering of the African continent brought such great wealth to the queen that she knighted Jesus 's captain and rewarded him with a coat of arms depicting a captive African bound with rope. (lithub.com)
  • Korea, Japan and America should become one nation. (tparents.org)
  • The state officially categorizes its population into six groups: white, African American, Native American/Alaskan Native, Pacific Islander, Asian, and Native Hawaiian. (easierwithpractice.com)
  • The 2007 story was by Laura Sullivan , who also produced last fall's story on native american foster care problems in SD . (metafilter.com)
  • In the biblical Genesis story, Adam and Eve were driven from paradise into the wilderness. (scseagrant.org)
  • METHODS: Data (2020-2040) relating to the incidence, mortality of PC, and demographic shifts based on continents and HDI areas were extracted from GLOBOCAN 2020. (bvsalud.org)
  • The DU App includes tools that are important to DU supporters, waterfowlers, and conservationists throughout North America. (ducks.org)
  • The seven voyages also had the purpose of extending the tribute system across the Indian Ocean, and thereby demanding the acknowledgement from foreign peoples of the supremacy of the Chinese emperor. (jasoncolavito.com)
  • Later on, increasing numbers of their mongrel descendants returned to the north to mate with the rapidly expanding Andonic peoples, and such unfortunate unions unfailingly deteriorated the superior stock. (preterhuman.net)
  • Outside of this territory there was at the dawn of time no other 'land' where North America now is, except a long island of rock that marks the backbone of what are now the Selkirk Mountains and a long ridge that is now the mountain chain of the Alleghanies beside the Atlantic slope. (loyalbooks.com)
  • Millions of years have probably elapsed since the cooling of the outer crust of the globe produced the solid basis of our continents. (loyalbooks.com)
  • Joseph, born in Cleveland, Ohio, is the son of a French-German mother and Indian father who credits his three years spent with the Peace Corps in Senegal for having a profound effect on him and preparing him for a writing career. (usinpac.com)
  • Ecological restoration reflects the American spirit-our constant utopian desire to rehabilitate the world. (scseagrant.org)
  • The first ecological restorers in the New World were Christian white settlers, who viewed themselves as gardeners of blighted wastelands-even as they pushed Indians west and leveled forests for agriculture and cities. (scseagrant.org)
  • Previously, Joseph held the world premiere of the suspenseful drama "The North Pool" in 2011 in Palo Alto, Calif. His other works include "Huck and Holden," "Animals Out of Paper" and "Gruesome Playground Injuries. (usinpac.com)
  • Last week TruTV launched a six-part animated series from the team behind the debunking series Adam Ruins Everything called Reanimated History in which self-described "ruiner" Adam Conover takes a whirlwind tour through historical myths in order to expose the false facts that pass for history. (jasoncolavito.com)
  • The sagas were first taken seriously when in 1837 the Danish antiquarian Carl Christian Rafn pointed out the possibility for a Norse settlement in or voyages to North America. (usa-printables.com)
  • but their descendants or people of the same race remained in the north and west of Ireland, and in the Highlands of Scotland. (google.dk)
  • and through the Indian Reductions practice to relocate, use the labor of, and attempt Christian conversions of the native people in their own homeland. (usa-printables.com)
  • The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes, an award that celebrates inspiring, public-spirited, diverse young people from all across America, recently announced that 18-year-old Sruthi Ramaswami was among its 2013 national winners. (usinpac.com)
  • They were followed in Europe by a somewhat superior and prolific people, whose descendants soon spread over the entire continent from the ice in the north to the Alps and Mediterranean in the south. (preterhuman.net)
  • The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers, provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. (cdc.gov)
  • The image is a metaphor for the continent as the receptacle of multiple traumas. (africanarguments.org)
  • Ethnicity Categories Hispanic or Latino: A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. (easierwithpractice.com)
  • Paper proposals are requested for a one-day regional American Studies colloquium intended to reflect and develop the vitality of the discipline in the South West of England. (upenn.edu)
  • Papers that address the legacy and significance of the plantation (as a mode of production, model of labor or racial relations, apparatus of colonial domination, site of creolization, scene of historical trauma, etc.) or that explore Plantation America as a model for transnational or hemispheric studies are especially welcome. (upenn.edu)
  • After the bloody Civil War, a few Americans turned away from human society and looked to wild places for meaning and sustenance. (scseagrant.org)
  • The human lineage goes from Adam to Ishmael, from Ishmael to Solomon, and from Solomon to Muhammad. (ancient-origins.net)
  • Today, when modern Americans hear the word "nature," most of us think of places far from the madding crowd. (scseagrant.org)
  • We analyzed a sample of 106 investments carried out by 52 Chinese MNEs in 10 Latin American countries between 2005 and 2017. (ub.edu)
  • this terminology was popularized in the West through the teachings of Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophists , who were responsible for bringing many Hindu teachings from Indian and Westernizing them 1 , 2 . (dpjs.co.uk)
  • She sailed from New England to the West Indies laden with dried fish, Boston rum, and Pequot Indians. (lithub.com)
  • In 2013, she was named a Champion of Change by the White House due to her tireless efforts to improve the quality of life in Native American communities. (thebump.com)
  • Before the Christian era, the south part of Britain was possessed by tribes from Belgium, or the low countries on the continent. (google.dk)
  • The Great American Outdoors Act will fully and permanently fund the LWCF at $900 million annually, ensuring all funding is directed to its intended purpose of state and federal conservation projects. (ducks.org)
  • Nature, shifting its huge scenery, depressed the ocean beds and piled up the dry land of the continents. (loyalbooks.com)
  • Desire was the first American-built slave ship. (lithub.com)
  • Keeping up with the Kandansamys, a play on that other famous family from America, became South Africa's highest-grossing locally-made film in 2017. (africanarguments.org)
  • The first woman, called Eve, was made by God as a helper to Adam. (google.dk)
  • It seems you are arguing that since western interpretations of events mentioned in the Vedas and Puranas - like that of Wendy Doniger and 'her Children'/Spawn - assume the Indian Gods therein to be like 'Odinist' Gods (referring to the Aesir), it leads to disgusting and desperate tales about the same Gods. (india-forum.com)
  • The rugged rock which here and there breaks through the thin soil of the infertile north has lain on the spot from the very dawn of time. (loyalbooks.com)
  • different book love me to death in E. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. (mooreamusicpele.com)
  • Ina muzien (Vytautas Magnus University): `Lithuanian-American radio and TV. (lu.se)
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 17, 2020 - Today, thanks to the support of Sen. Martha McSally and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the U.S. Senate passed S. 3422, the Great American Outdoors Act. (ducks.org)
  • The Great American Outdoors Act will enable Americans to continue enjoying the great outdoors by ensuring our public lands are a safe and suitable place for all varieties of responsible recreation. (ducks.org)
  • Adam our guide was wonderful company and a great birder. (tribes.co.uk)
  • Washington, DC: The American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation. (ub.edu)
  • Produced by the Indian Gaming Association. (ggbmagazine.com)
  • The American Correctional Association develops standards on medical issues, such as TB, in correctional facilities. (cdc.gov)
  • The American Public Health Association is a worldwide organization of public health professionals that conduct public health research and establish standards for public health practices. (cdc.gov)
  • 'One in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime,' NPR's investigation led to the reopening of the case and Congressional hearings . (metafilter.com)
  • In Adam, Touzani creates the perfect habitat to unpack her character study, a gentle observation of the shifts in the relationship between two ordinary women. (africanarguments.org)
  • After Adam was created, God planted the garden of Eden, in which he placed the man to dress it and to keep it. (google.dk)
  • 2009. "A panel data analysis of locational determinants of Chinese and Indian outward foreign direct investment. (ub.edu)