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Sustainable Brazil: social and economic impacts of the 2014 World Cup
Ernst & Young Terco, 2011On October 30, 2007, the FIFA Executive Committee appointed Brazil as host of the 2014 World Cup football tournament.DocumentUnderstanding India’s global engagements: some key issues and entry points for an inclusive development agenda
Oxfam India, 2011India’s international position is one of increasing influence and assertiveness, but is also shaped by powerful constrains. Civil society in India faces opportunities and constraints of a particular and complex nature.DocumentInequality Matters: BRICS inequalities fact sheet
Oxfam, 2013In international debates about inequality, dialogue on the emergence of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), has focused largely on how this group has contributed to a shift in the global balance of power, raising hopes of a more egalitarian global governance architecture through international trade and development co-operation.DocumentThe dynamic south, economic development and inclusive growth: the challenges ahead
The Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, 2013High wage inequality is a major policy concern in Brazil, India, China and South Africa. Recent literature points to the need to examine the role of minimum wages or unionisation and their links to inequality within labour markets and the role of social protection.DocumentReducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America
Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012This working paper, produced by the Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) programme, investigates the relationship between emissions, inequality and poverty in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America. Research on this topic is of particular importance, since changing global demographics mean that the majority of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries.DocumentLinkages between pro-poor growth, social programmes and labour market: the recent Brazilian experience
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2009Known since the 1960s as one of the most unequal countries in the world, poverty and inequality in Brazil have recently declined in spite of negative growth. What factors explain what has occurred in Brazil?DocumentInequality and cost of electoral campaigns in Latin America
Ibmec São Paulo, 2008A fundamental characteristic of Latin America and the Caribbean is the region’s high level of inequality. It is also a region that has shown impressive developments in democracy over the past decades. ElectoralDocumentThe measurement of inequality of opportunity: theory and an application to Latin America
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2008What part of the inequality observed in a particular country is due to unequal opportunities rather than to differences in individual efforts or luck? Economists are increasingly attempting to understand the extent to which inequalities of opportunity affect a country’s economic performance and poverty outcomes.DocumentCan all cash transfers reduce inequality?
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007This one-page document examines the impact of three Latin American Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes providing cash transfers to poor families, conditioned on children’s school attendance and regular medical checks-ups.DocumentIs all socioeconomic inequality among racial groups in Brazil caused by racial discrimination?
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008This working paper looks at whether current racial discrimination is to blame for the persistent inequalities between whites and blacks in Brazil. The three main conclusions are:Pages