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  Has British business missed the boat in Latin America?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Latin America rose dramatically in the 1990s in response to opportunities stimulated by the spate of privatisations and private mergers and acquisitions (M&A). How have British enterprises responded to Latin America’s new economic environment? Have they worked to establish global export platforms?
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  Income distribution for development - more or less equal?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Despite the developmental progress of recent decades, developed and developing countries alike are experiencing widening income inequality. But how does income distribution affect economic growth? And to what extent does economic growth impact on income distribution?
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  Case studies of private sector programmes to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria

  Global Health Initiative, 2002

  Series of papers and background materials on private sector efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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  Debt sustainability, Brazil, and the IMF

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2003

  There has been a high concentration of financial crises in Latin America over the past two years. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have passed through serious debt problems.This paper analyses issues of debt sustainability in emerging economies.
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  Participatory approaches in budgeting and public expenditure management: case study 2: Porto Alegre, Brazil

  Participation & Civic Engagement Group, World Bank, 2003

  Presents a broad review of an experience in Participatory Budgeting introduced by the Workers Party (PT) in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, as part of their agenda of deepening democracy through “popular administration” of government.
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  Civil society, public space and local power: a study of the participatory budget in Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  Looks at participatory budgets and analyses the limits of State policies and the role of civil organisations in improving the quality of democratic life.
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  The IMF funding deforestation: how International Monetary Fund loans and policies are responsible for global forest loss

  American Lands Alliance, 2001

  Report which alleges that International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and policies have caused extensive deforestation in each of the 15 countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia studied.This forest loss, the author claims, has occurred both directly and indirectly through:the IMF's promotion of foreign investment in natural resource sectorsausterity measures that cut spending on en
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  When do the rich willingly pay income tax?

  Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2002

  Brazil and South Africa have much in common. In particular, they are both large middle income countries with very high levels of income inequality where whites historically have dominated over blacks.They differ markedly in terms of the significance of income tax. Relatively little income tax is collected in Brazil (4% of GDP).
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  We have a consensus: explaining political support for market reforms in Latin America

  Eldis Document Store, 2002

  This essay examines the course of market reforms—more polemically known as "neoliberalism"—in the four most industrialized countries in Latin America during the final decades of the twentieth century.Through a qualitative investigation of the reform process in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico—the paper challenges the perspective held by many analysts of the reforms who have assumed that nor
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  Currency crises: theoretical and empirical overview of the 1990s

  Croatian National Bank, Croatia, 2001

  This paper provides an overview of currency crises theories, methods for crises prediction, implications of currency crises for economic policy, as well as different currency crises episodes in the 1990s, namely the Asian, Russian and Brazilian financial crises.The theoretical models of currency crises can be divided into three generations of models:first-generation models, first found

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