Search

Reset

Searching in Brazil, Mexico

Showing 151-160 of 178 results

Pages

  • Document

    Conference news: ageing, development and social protection

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002
    The UNRISD conference examined the opportunities, problems and challenges of effective social protection for older people, including formal public policies and more informal strategies, such as household support systems.In Session One, participants considered the dynamics and challenges of population ageing in countries experiencing different development trajectories.
  • Document

    Financial stability and growth in emerging economies: the role of the financial sector

    Forum on Debt and Development, 2003
    This book analyses the issues that determine financial stability in developing countries, such as the robustness of their domestic financial sector, the soundness of their macroeconomic policies, the volatility of international capital flows, and the overall stability of the global financial system.
  • Document

    From social assistance to social development: targeted education subsidies in developing countries

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2003
    A joint project of the Center for Global Development and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), this book compiles published and unpublished material on existing conditioned transfer for education (CTE) programs and evaluates their ability to advance poverty reduction and education goals.
  • Document

    Social Capital: A Post-Transition Concept? Questions of Context and Gender from a Latin American Perspective

    BRIDGE, 2003
    Following its enthusiastic endorsement by the World Bank and other development agencies in recent years, social capital has found a ready application within Latin American policy arenas.
  • Document

    Uncovering the evidence. What works for safe motherhood?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Over half a million mothers still die annually from obstetric complications and associated diseases. Indeed, most maternal deaths are linked to delivery. How can this be, ten years into the Safe Motherhood Initiative? What strategies would reduce maternal mortality rates (MMR)? And why is determining the best way forward so difficult?
  • Document

    Behaving badly? Young men and sexual health

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can young men change their attitudes to sex and sexual health? What methods can be used to challenge their views? Researchers from the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London and Southampton University considered ways of improving the sexual health of young men in developing countries.
  • Document

    The IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why are anti-IMF protests sweeping the developing world? Is it privileged students and anarchists who are behind the wave of unrest? Who are taking to the streets and how are their livelihoods being affected by liberalisation? Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) merely Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in another guise?
  • Document

    Simply effective - magnesium sulphate reduces the risk of eclampsia in pregnancy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia may kill more than 50 000 pregnant women each year, mostly in developing regions. A study in 33 countries, co-ordinated by the Oxford Institute of Health Sciences, shows that magnesium sulphate reduces the risk of eclampsia and maternal death. Policy-makers should improve the availability of this cheap drug in developing countries, the researchers conclude.
  • Document

    Certifiably eco-friendly: is certification promoting sustainable forestry management?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Forest certification is all the rage, but is it having any impact? Who is benefiting from the ‘good wood’ trade? Is certification improving responsible business practice in forest product supply chains? Can the private sector and local stakeholders work to manage forests in ways that sustainably optimise social and environmental benefits?
  • Document

    UK and overseas universities: working together to promote development?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The UK’s Higher Education Links Scheme (HEL) promotes exchanges (usually for three years) between UK and overseas universities. In line with objectives set out in its 1997 White Paper on the Elimination of World Poverty, the UK is keen that HEL should focus on poverty alleviation, sustainable development and gender equity. Is this re-emphasis producing results?

Pages