Latin America and Caribbean
- Demographic transition and the regulatory shortcomings of Brazil’s social security
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Brazil’s social security and social assistance provisions are too expensive and becoming more so relative to the country’s age profile and per capita GDP. This paper concludes that Brazil’s social provisions must undergo deepregulatory changes if they are to meet the challenge posed by thecountry’s shifting demography, as population ageing is the single mostimportant factor affecting social security in Brazil.
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- Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils
- World Bank, 2012
- This report by the World Bank presents state of the art knowledge on the impact of different land management practices on soil carbon sequestration rates across the world. The technical study undertak...
- Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean
- A. Calderon / United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean , 2011
- FDI into Latin America and the Caribbean reached US$113bn in 2010, 40% up from 2009, and is expected to grow by 15-25% in 2011. FDI outflows from Latin American economies grew even more, to reach US$4...
- Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010. Country Report: Brazil
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
- This report presents the results of an evaluation of the Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative’s (NICFI) support to the formulation and implementation of national REDD strategies and ot...
- Participatory Budgeting: Citizen Participation for Better Public Policies
- J. Oropeza / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2011
- In the last two decades, Latin American countries have implemented participatory budgeting (PB) as a way to incorporate citizen perspective into budget designation, in order to increase public policie...
- Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010, Country Report: Guyana
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
- This report is one of five national-level studies conducted as part of the Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative. It aims to document the baseline on Reducing Em...
- Sustainable development through policy integration in Latin America: a comparative approach
- L. Rival / United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012
- The challenge of Latin American countries today is that they too need to translate socioeconomic development objectives into a model that maintains ecosystem services, biodiversity and low carbon emis...
- Ageing, Solidarity and Social Protection: Time to Move Towards Equality
- United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean , 2012
- This document analyses the outlook for population ageing and advocates mainstreaming this issue into the public agenda. It introduces its central theme of equality and ageing. Concepts are presented a...
- Mapping of health system functions to strengthen priority programs. The case of maternal health in Mexico
- M. Gonzalez-Block / BMC Public Health, 2011
- Health system strengthening is critical to ensure the integration and scaling-up of priority health promotion, disease prevention and control programs. Normative guidelines are available to address he...
- Assessment of Mexico's policies impacting its greenhouse gas emissions
- N Höhne / Climate Action Tracker, 2012
- The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) compares and assesses national and global action against a range of different climate targets across all relevant time frames. This report assesses whether Mexico’s cu...
- Can Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Maternal Health and Birth Outcomes? Evidence from El Salvador’s Comunidades Solidarias Rurales
- A. de Brauw / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2011
- Although conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are traditionally evaluated in relation to child schooling and nutrition outcomes, there is growing interest in examining maternal and reproductive health im...
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