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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- Trusting the enemy: confidence in the state among ex-combatants
- E. Nussio; B. Oppenheim / Households in Conflict Network, 2013
- War-torn societies are often racked with generalized distrust, both among citizens and between citizens and the state. Even long after conflict ends, former combatants who participated in violence and challenged the state’s mono...
- Expanding microfinance in Latin America’s rural areas
- M. Jaramillo / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Rural finance has the potential to help poor people out of poverty, and Latin America has met that challenge in some unique ways.This Brief by discusses impacts of microfinance’s in rural areas, presenting evidence on rural pove...
- Latin America's institutional and regulatory innovations for microfinance growth
- M. Jaramillo / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Current microfinance sector performance is associated with the reforms of Latin American countries’ financial sectors that started at the end of the 1980s. Before the reforms, development of microfinance was constrained by an ov...
- Guide to microfinance in Latin America
- M. Jaramillo / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- There are some unique features of Latin America’s recent microfinance evolution, including innovations in regulations and technology, that may provide interesting lessons for other regions. Key lessons: ...
- Latin American approaches to extractive industry conflict
- G. Damonte / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
- The rapid expansion of extractive industries in Latin America is transforming the societies and territories in which it is occurring. This phenomenon has provoked social and environmental conflict, especially involving the rural and i...
- Small-scale and informal mining: a big problem for Latin American states
- J. Kuramoto / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
- Latin America has experienced substantial growth and transformation in small-scale mining, meaning it is often no longer small or artisanal, instead it is characterised by high informality and an increasing potential to generate confl...
- Human rights in Latin America
- C. Toledo / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Human rights have played a key role in ending dictatorships in Latin America, inspiring democracy, fostering social justice and generating a more empowered and active citizenship. This guide highlights the key policies and ...
- DETERring deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: environmental monitoring and law enforcement
- J. Assunção; C. Gandour; R. Rocha / Climate Policy Initiative, 2013
- This study asks: which specific policy efforts contributed most to the reduction in Amazon deforestation? The paper, which evaluates the impact of monitoring on deforestation, focuses on DETER, a satellite-based system for real-time d...
- Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales
- C. M. Stickler / Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2013
- Tropical rainforest regions have large hydropower generation potential that figures prominently in many nations’ energy growth strategies. This paper argues that feasibility studies of hydropower plants typically ignore the effec...
- Intercultural Health Policies in Latin America
- S. Ruiz Cervantes / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Historically, indigenous peoples’ access to health services in Latin America has been limited due to a variety of social, economic and cultural factors. The misunderstanding of indigenous peoples’ world view and their defi...
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