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    Conditional cash transfers: a ‘pathway to women’s empowerment’?

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2008
    This paper critically examines Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs), a development intervention which provides mothers of school-age children in extreme poverty with a cash subsidy conditional on their children's attendance at school and health clinics. The paper uses evaluations of CCTs in order to assess the evidence for their claim to empower women.
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    Worldwide guide to trade unions and works councils

    Baker and McKenzie, 2010
    This book looks at the current state of works councils and trade unions for 33 countries around the world. Topics include: collective bargaining unfair labour practices trade union employee protections rights employee collective representatives the labour regulatory regime
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    Lost presence and presents: how parental death affects children

    Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, 2004
    This paper investigates the effects of parental death and disability on investments in children's human capital using panel data sets from Indonesia and Mexico. The results in this analysis suggest that parental loss does, in fact, reduce children’s health and education. This general result holds true in both countries.
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    Commercialization of non-timber forest products: factors influencing success

    Overseas Development Institute, 2006
    Commercialization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) has been widely promoted as an approach to rural development in tropical forest areas. However, donor investments in the development of NTFP resources have often failed to deliver the expected benefits in terms of poverty alleviation and improved conservation of natural resources.
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    Home gardens sustain crop diversity and improve farm resilience in Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico

    Springerlink, 2009
    The home garden is an integral part of smallholders’ production strategies. This paper investigates how home gardens are integrated into local farming practices and how these influence biodiversity in Candelaria Loxicha, Oaxaca, Mexico. The paper finds that home gardens harbour high levels of biodiversity.Further findings include:
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    A doctor in your pocket

    The Economist, 2009
    This special report on health care and technology, published by The Economist, describes how developing countries are using mobile phones to provides personalised medicine. Drawing from experiences of various countries, the authors demonstrate how new technologies help to tackle the health problems of the world’s poorest.
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    Is Latin America retreating from individual retirement accounts?

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2009
    In 1981, Chile initiated old-age pension reforms that introduced mandatory funded individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and moved away from public systems. Ten other Latin American countries followed the Chilean model in the 1990s.
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    The impact of ICTs on heath care

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    There is a growing consensus that the impact of information and communications technologies (ICTs) on health systems could be substantial or even revolutionary.Although the precise nature of the impact is much more difficult to predict, it seems evident that the health sector will benefit substantially from advances in mobile telephony and internet services. For example:
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    Changing their world: concepts and practices of women's movements

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2008
    What do we mean by women’s movements and what makes a movement feminist? Why are movements important and what are the differences between movements and organisations? What are the issues facing women’s and feminist movements today?
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    Seguro Popular in Mexico: is premature evaluation healthy?

    The Lancet, 2009
    This article, published in The Lancet, presents an innovative cluster-randomised trial of health insurance, Seguro Popular, in Mexico. Similar to all large-scale effectiveness evaluations, the authors acknowledge that this study has limitations. For instance, the short implementation period could have precluded the identification of an effect on outcomes that are unlikely to change rapidly.

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