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    Informality and inclusive growth

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2015
    This paper is a working document, and the first stage in the conduct of a joint research in the topic of informality and inclusive growth. The research will study the cases of Colombia and South Africa and analyse to what extent these lessons can be applied to other countries in Africa and Latin America.
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    Collective land access rights for enhancing smallholder livelihoods

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2015
    Land liberalisation policies and programmes based on giving individual property rights implemented in the last decades have not produced the expected results in improving rural peasant and/or native livelihoods in Andean and African countries.
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    Local Content Frameworks in Latin American and African oil and gas sector

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2015
    The limited nature of mineral resources and demands of the extractive sector require policymakers to find mechanisms to maximise the sector’s benefits.
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    Argentina: Impacts of the child allowance programme on the labour-market behaviour of adults

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014
    In 2009 Argentina implemented the Universal Child Allowance for Social Protection (AUH,  Asignación Universal por Hijo para Protección Social), a cash transfer programme for households with children.
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    Indigenous peoples’ rights and climate policies in Guyana: a special report

    Forest Peoples Programme, 2014
    Guyana is a high forest cover and low deforestation country with tropical forests covering up to 85% of the national land area. The vast majority of Guyana’s forests are found on lands traditionally used and occupied by Amerindian families and communities.
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    The employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges and innovations in labour training

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014
    In recent decades, vocational training institutes in Latin America and the Caribbean have made progress in finding responses to the challenges arising from the economic, production and technological changes taking place in the region.
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    Mega-cities & infrastructure in Latin America: what its people think

    2014
    In late 2013, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) conducted a multisectoral public opinion survey in five Latin American cities to better understand the way citizens perceive the quality of life, the needs of urban infrastructure and the standards of public services.
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    Global boom, local impacts: mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007-2011

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2014
    The relationship between the abundance of natural resources and socio-economic performance has been a main object of study in the economic development field since Adam Smith.
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    Dealing with the soaring price of rice

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2008
    Rice is a critical item in the diet of the poor in the Philippines. This policy note traces the root of the country's rice price situation, analysing the government's response and offering insights and suggestions on what should be done.
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    Chaebol policy for suppression of economic power concentration

    Korea Development Institute, 2013
    The Korean word ‘chaebol’ literally means a group of individuals related by blood, who have accumulated massive wealth. Yet the word is commonly used to refer to a business group consisting of numerous big companies, owned and controlled by a person or family.

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