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    New approaches to cutaneous leishmaniasis

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Cutaneous leishmaniasis is one of the so-called neglected diseases, and is found in many of the world’s poorest people in Asia, Africa and Latin America. It affects the skin, and in its severe forms can lead to chronic disability and disfigurement. However, because it is rarely fatal, it attracts little interest from financial donors, public health authorities or health professionals.
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    Operationalising participatory research and gender analysis

    Development in Practice, 2008
    This issue of the journal has a special focus on “Operationalising participatory research and gender analysis” , and aims to add value to the discussion of methodological, practical, philosophical, political, and institutional issues involved in using gender-sensitive participatory methods. The articles included are:
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    Child labour in the mining sector of Peru

    Foundation for International Research on Working Children, 2008
    In 1973, the ILO adopted its Minimum Age Convention (No. 138), which requires states to design and apply national policies to ensure the effective abolition of all forms of child labour and to set the minimum age of employment at 14.
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    Change and Continuity in Social Protection in Latin America: Mothers at the Service of the State?

    2007
    Far from 'empowering' women, social protection programmes in Latin America often increase women's unpaid responsibilities and reinforce the gender division of labour. This is the central argument put forward in this paper, which critically analyses two social protection programmes in Latin America. The first is the well-known Mexican-based Oportunidades programme (formerly Progresa).
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    The measurement of inequality of opportunity: theory and an application to Latin America

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2008
    What 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.
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    New Agriculturalist focus on Potato

    New Agriculturalist, 2008
    This edition of New Agriculturist focusses on the potato, examining the challenges and opportunities facing producers worldwide. Among the articles includes in the edition are a report from Bolivia looking at efforts to improve access for rural potato growers to high-value urban markets, and the work to conserve the vast genetic diversity of potato in the highlands of Peru.
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    Building identity while managing disadvantage: Peruvian transgender issues

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    Sexuality issues have gained considerable discursive space in the last two decades in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. However this debate has largely framed men, both homosexual and heterosexual, as the primary sexual actors, whether as agents in sexual relationships or as transmitters of sexual diseases.
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    Fighting poverty with a glass of milk

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Many people see economic growth as the solution to poverty. But in many countries, economic growth has not addressed persistent inequality between rich and poor people. Can social assistance programmes, in which governments give money or food to poor people, have an impact on poor people’s well-being?
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    Water supply projects succeed when villagers want and maintain them

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In villages in Peru, Bolivia and Ghana water supply systems are still working up to 12 years after construction. They succeed because villagers request them, manage them, and can get spare parts and technical help. However, some people still use unsafe water sources and the water systems do not pay for themselves.
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    Favouring local development in the Amazon: lessons from community forest management initiatives

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2008
    The opportunities to profit from commercialising forest products promise to improve livelihoods in the rural Amazon, but only if local communities have ownership over the ways in which their resources are exploited. This policy brief examines case studies in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru with the aim to establish the importance of genuinely equitable partnerships in local forest management schemes.

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