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  Lessons from the field: the impact of civil society budget analysis and advocacy in six countries

  International Budget Partnership, 2007

  Can civil society improve the transparency, accountability and impact of public spending? While anecdotal information has been very encouraging, there is not yet sufficient information available to answer this central question.
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  Pension systems in Latin America: concepts and measurements of coverage

  Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2007

  This paper documents the findings of a project designed to measure pension coverage based on information from household surveys in Latin America. It represents an expansion of a previous analysis and describes the level, trends and profiles of pension coverage among active workers and the elderly in the region.
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  Conditional cash transfers for human development in Latin America and the Caribbean

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Conditional cash transfers have emerged as the dominant form of social welfare in Latin America and the Caribbean. Cash is transferred to poor families provided that they use health and educational resources. Despite programme success, it is not clear if this is the most effective way to reduce poverty and boost human development.
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  Unnatural, "Unsuitable", Unemployed! Lesbians and Workplace Discrimination in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Honduras and Mexico,

  BRIDGE, 2006

  This report analyses discrimination against lesbians in the job market, based on statistics, law and testimonials from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Honduras. It seeks to make explicit the links between discrimination in the workplace and the ability of lesbian women to secure the basic elements of survival - food, housing, education and medical care - for themselves and their families.
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  Budget analysis and policy advocacy: the role of non-governmental public action

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  Civil society initiatives to improve budget transparency and influence government spending priorities are being introduced in developing countries. This IDS working paper reports on research carried out on six civil society budget groups around the world. The case studies are on a social movement in India, a research institution in Croatia and NGOs in Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Uganda.
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  Educational equity and public policy: comparing results from 16 countries

  UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2007

  The right to education has been recognised by the international community for the last half century and has led to increasing interest in the equity of countries’ education systems.
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  Where is education in the conditional cash transfers of education?

  UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2006

  This paper examines the educational effects of conditional cash transfers (CCT) for education. The study finds that based on the evidence reviewed in this paper, there is very limited support for the conclusion that CCTs are effective educational instruments, in particular with regards to their ability to increase learning.
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  Multicentre study of acute alcohol use and non-fatal injuries: data from the WHO collaborative study on alcohol and injuries

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2006

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), examines the link between drinking alcohol and the risk of non-fatal injury. It draws on data collected from hospital emergency departments in Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, India, Mexico, Mozambique, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden.
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  Making space for citizens: broadening the ‘new democratic spaces’ for citizen participation

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  This IDS Policy Briefing explores the new democratic spaces that have opened up for citizen participation in a range of countries, including Angola, Brazil, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Uganda, Mexico, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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  Non-formal education and basic education reform: a conceptual review

  International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2006

  There is growing recognition that non-formal education (NFE) can play an important role in providing basic education for disadvantaged children and young people. However, development agencies and governments face difficult questions about how to manage the relationship between NFE and the formal education system.

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