Uruguay
- Capital:
Montevideo - Population:
3477000 - Size:
176220.0 Km2
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- The BLDS print collection
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Browse all the latest print documents from the British Library of Development Studies...
- Transforming on-grid renewable energy markets: a review of UNDP-GEF support for feed-in tariffs and related price and market-access instruments
- Y. Glemarec / Global Environment Facility, 2012
- This report is part of the United Nations Development Programme’s Global Environment Facility’s (UNDP-GEF) efforts to codify and share lessons learnt from how scarce public resources can be used to catalyse larger private fi...
- Analysis of potential criteria for the allocation of international funding for adaptation to climate change
- M. Stadelmann (ed); A. Persson (ed); I. Ratajczak-Juszko (ed) / Center for Comparative and International Studies, 2012
- This paper analyses the potential criteria to allocate international funding for adaptation to climate change as a response to the prioritisation of project proposals given scarce funding. It is based on a review of the equity and cos...
- ICTs for good governance Latin America
- C. Batista / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003
- This work is a survey of the conditions for the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in five countries in Latin America: Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico. In several municipalities, mayors, leaders and auth...
- The Millennium Development Goals: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective
- H. Guzman; E. Espindola; R. Bajraj / United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2005
- This paper looks at the differences across countries in Latin American and Caribbean region in terms of their chances of attaining the Goals and, wherever possible, the differences between trends in various segments of the population ...
- 2009 report on promoting the deployment of clean technologies in developing countries
- World Bank, 2009
- Carbon Finance-Assist is a corporate program of the World Bank designed to help developing countries and economies in transition to better participate in the fast growing carbon market. The World Bank Institute has been entrusted to m...
- Promoting Latin American agro-economics
- A. Rodríguez; M. Rodrigues; S. Salcedo / Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, 2010
- After the revival from the economic crisis of 2008-2009, the fundamental challenge facing Latin America and the Caribbean is how to consolidate the recovery with medium- and long-term economic development. In this respect, this report...
- Universal minimum pensions would be an effective way to substantially reduce poverty among elderly Latin Americans
- J-J. Dethier; P. Pestieau; R. Ali / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2010
- In Latin America, five countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay - have non-contributory pensions. But pension coverage rates remain below 30% in half of Latin American countries. This paper examin...
- Improving security and justice through security sector reform
- N. Bagayoko-Penone / Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2010
- Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors in post-conflict countries. This issue of insights explores the concept of SSR as a co...
- How eligibility rules affect access to pensions In Latin America
- A. Forteza; I. Apella; E. Fajnzylber / Social Protection and Labour, World Bank, 2010
- This paper proposes alternative methods to project pension rights and implement these methods in Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. The paper indicates that the histories of contribution required to access pensions are apparently unattaina...
- Individual retirement accounts are still workable, but need adequate reforms
- F. Bertranou; E. Calvo; E. Bertranou / Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2009
- In 1981, Chile initiated old-age pension reforms that introduced mandatory funded individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and moved away from public systems. Ten other Latin American countries followed the Chilean model in the 1990s. Bu...
- El Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (IDRC)
- El Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (IDRC), contribuye a la búsqueda de soluciones a los problemas sociales, económicos y ambientales de las comunidades en el mundo en desarrollo, a través del financiamiento de investigaciones científicas en Africa, Asia, América Latina, el Caribe y Canadá. El IDRC es una corporación pública creada en 1970 por el Parlamento de Canadá y...
- Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM)
- ITeM performs information, communication and education activities on an international level, concerning development and environment-related activities. It is a civil society organization, working for civil society, which encourages citizen involvement in global decision-making processes. ITeM's website contains educational resources, based on information and communication, and further links to o...
- Inter-American Research and Documentation Centre on Vocational Training (ILO) (CINTERFOR)
- Vocation training research and documents
- Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana, Uruguay (CLAEH)
- Uruguayan social science institute, conducting research, teaching and consultancy
- Genero y recursos naturales (IDRC/CIID)
- La iniciativa de programa Minga (CIID) busca apoyar la investigación para la gestión de recursos naturales en América Latina y el Caribe, con el objetivo de mejorar el uso de información apropiada y el fortalecimiento de procesos de decisión participativos. Se interesa en investigaciones en la que participen hombres y mujeres en su diseño y aplicación, y que posibiliten la generación de cambios ap...
- Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social (CLAES)
- CLAES es una organización no gubernamental independiente dedicada a la investigación, acción y promoción de la ecología social. Recone una vinculación recíproca entre grupos humanos con su entorno ambiental. en un contexto histórico. Considera problemas socioambientales, vinculándose la investigación con la acción, desde un compromiso ético con la defensa de la vida. WWW servicios: Grupos de inf...
- Mercosur Economic Research Network
- Latin American economic research network
- Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración (ALADI)
- La Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración (ALADI) es un organismo intergubernamental que, continuando el proceso iniciado por la ALALC en el año 1960, promueve la expansión de la integración de la región, a fin de asegurar su desarrollo económico y social. Tiene como objetivo final el establecimiento de un mercado común. La ALADI (Artículos 28 y 29 del TM80) está compuesta por tres órganos polí...
- Universidad ORT, Uruguay
- University with economics, education and social science departments
- Choike
- Gateway to development issues in the South coming from a Southern perspective
