Sistema Regional de Información
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el Caribe, España y Portugal

The purpose of this article is to make an analysis of the notion of development. Until relatively recently it was assumed that the role of development was only to generate capital, a vision that is currently not sufficient or acceptable, development now involves the consideration of basic dimensions: economic, social and environmental.

Much has been said about the impact of tourism in Guanacaste; while some consider it the engine which has helped the province to grow, others claim that its benefits are not the result of the work of tourism operators. Economic impact studies of tourism have been previously carried out; however, up until now no study has been able to measure the perception people from Guanacaste has about it. This is the first quantitative approach study, with a representative sample of 640 people from all over the province, which answers the following question: what is the opinion of residents in Guanacaste about the impact of tourism on their communities? This paper also compares this opinion according to different sociodemographic variables, and presents the benefits and problems attributed to tourism.

The main objective of this essay is to find empirical evidence that allows us to verify the relationship between the competitiveness of cities and urban areas, measured through the index prepared by the Center for Research and Economic Teaching; and the quality of life of people, using a set of indicators of well-being (poverty, human development, employment, education, health, income, among others). To fulfill this purpose, a correlational and comparative analysis is performed between competitiveness and some indicators, as well as between indicators of well-being in a large sample of tourist municipalities of Mexico in a first stage and between a restricted sample of 5 municipalities that offer services of beach tourism.

In this paper we analyze the way in which university education seeks to solve the dilemma between training professionals with a nationalist approach or professionals who think globally but are able to address problems locally.

This study addresses the issue of violence experienced by women in their dating relationships during late adolescence from the attachment theory perspective. Four participants were involved in the study with the purpose of analyzing the characteristics of the bonds throughout their stages of development. This way it was possible to characterize attachment styles of women who remained exposed to abusive situations. To achieve this, it was necessary to work with three instruments. First of all, a life story interview was used, in order to identify personal characteristics that have an important influence on attachment styles. Second, it was used an attachment styles interview called Entrevista de Apego a los Pares (Campos, 2005), and the Attachment Styles Questionnaire (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991). The results displayed insecure attachment styles; there were two fearful type cases and two anxious ones. This relates to the personal history of each participant, involving gender factors and the socio-cultural environment. By analyzing the dynamics of these elements, their influence on staying in abusive relationships can be understood; in that way, an integrated analysis of the issue can be achieved.

demanding and contemporary environment. It was investigated regarding their affinity and difficulty for the main subjects, the preferred modality to generate their knowledge, their affinity for the use of electronic devices, social networks and the Internet, their projection for the decision to pursue higher education, and others. The study was carried out in three different schools in the province of Alajuela (Grecia, Atenas, Pacto del Jocote) in Costa Rica. To capture the information, a consultation instrument (questionnaire) was designed, which was applied physically (on paper) to students at all levels of secondary school. The results obtained highlight that 64% of the adolescents included in the study consider Mathematics as the most difficult subject. 47% of adolescents chose the Science area as the subject they like the most. 58% of adolescents prefer assigning group work and exposing students as the most appropriate option for the teaching-learning process in the classroom. It also highlights that all respondents have a cell phone, 95% have internet on their cell phone, 94% of them use Facebook and 54% use WhatsApp. 81% of students are already clear that they would like to study in higher education. The main reason for choosing a career would be due to the affinity with the profession with 30%, followed by the good salary of the professional with 26%.

The process of transferring people to different territories in search of better conditions for material reasons or misadventures caused by natural phenomena has been a reason for conceptualizations aimed at explaining only the change from one territory to another of protagonists, leaving out events that surround them with holistic explanatory possibilities; in this case, the negative prejudices towards the arrival or transit of agents in mobility as well as solidarity positions. Phenomenon that in Mexico is characterized by being a historical circulation space for Central American and Caribbean people who seek to enter the United States at a time of sharpening barriers as well as unusual caravans. This process is explored exploratoryly from the 2017 National Discrimination Survey aimed at making visible positions and beliefs in this regard, analyzed with multifactorial association techniques and comparatively between federative entities based on their neighborhood with the borders.

Companies require optimal financial management to remain and grow in the market, eight out of ten companies do not survive more than ten years and only 5 percent of SMEs in Costa Rica are found in Guanacaste, so its required more consolidated companies in the area that contribute to economic development. This article aims to analyze challenges for financing in companies by studying the perspective of commercial SMEs in Guanacaste. The results obtained include that the analyzed sector has developed its business through personal financing with savings, or even using resources from other employment and, in addition, making initial investments of less than five million and with the support of suppliers have managed to position their SMEs, although very few expanding in the market, on this expansion show desires to do it even through indebtedness, but affirm ignorance in financial matters. These companies must recognize the relevance of financial management and seek strategies to grow through constant learning with training on financing and administration in general. This research promotes an orientation towards management in a responsible manner, seeking the profitability and growth of commercial SMEs in Guanacaste and Costa Rica.

Through in-depth interviews, this article explores the legacy of Antonio Maceo and the Cuban colony at Mansion de Nicoya, Guanacaste, through the perception of the reminiscences of the mid-twentieth century landscape in the memory of five interviewees. The article uses the concept of landscape as a way of seeing and perceiving the environment, as well as a social hieroglyph, through which it is possible to denote and analyze social and economic relations in a specific place. In the analysis of the interviews, three derivations are determined by means of the analysis of the idea of landscape in the interviewees. The first one is the presence of the legacy of the figure of Maceo and the Cuban colony as a source of communal identity, the second one deals with Mansion as one of the hubs in Guanacaste in the mid-twentieth century, and finally, Mansion as a center of rich agricultural production for the local and national markets.

This article explores the effect of constant group work in a reading strategies course at the University of Costa Rica. The target group is heterogeneous as it is composed by thirty students who belong to different majors at UCR. To assess the effect of constant group work throughout the course to foster students’ motivation, the writer analyzed the data collected with three instruments during the semester. Finally, the writer explores the notion of group work and lists some recommendations to implement it in such a course. To illustrate the implementation of group work and reading comprehension, the writer includes a sample non-evaluated WebQuest carried out at the computer lab in groups of four students.