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    Law and poverty: the legal system and poverty reduction

    Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2008
    Poverty tends to be considered as an economic subject area rather than a legal one. And yet, a society’s distribution of income and opportunity is the outcome of its legal system which may encourage or fail to prevent various forms of marginalisation.
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    Carbon storage in Mexico: making ecosystem services equitable and legitimate

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Markets for ecosystem services are being promoted across the developing world. These markets have developed amidst claims that people need economic incentives to conserve ecosystems and their services. However, these markets must be designed and implemented in ways that are fair to local people.
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    Conditional Cash Transfers: What Implications for Equality and Social Cohesion? The Experience of Opportunidades in Mexico

    2008
    Oportunidades is an organisation based in Mexico that aims to increase the quality of life and capacity of members of poor households in Mexico, as well as preventing the 'cycle' of poverty where children of poor parents are themselves poor in adulthood. The programme offers 'conditional cash transfers' for parents.
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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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    Exchanging seeds and conserving biodiversity in Mexico

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Getting secure access to seeds of the right variety and quality is an important issue for farmers and is central to achieving food security. How do farmers in Mexico ensure access to the right seeds?
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    Breaking the trap of oil dependence and conflict in Nigeria

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Until recently, Nigeria was the largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite oil revenues totalling about US$300 billion, the country is still poor and troubled by violent conflict. In reality, oil has long been a cause of conflict in a country where the richest 10 percent control about 40 percent of the national wealth.
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    Prevalence of dementia in Latin America, India, and China: a population-based cross-sectional survey

    The Lancet, 2008
    Studies have suggested that the prevalence of dementia is lower in developing than in developed regions. This paper investigates the prevalence and severity of dementia in sites in low-income and middle-income countries according to two definitions of dementia diagnosis.
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    Minimum wages and earnings inequality in urban Mexico: revisiting the evidence

    LSE Research Online, 2008
    This article explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980s and the late 1990s. In contrast to the view that sees minimum wages as an ineffective redistributive tool in developing countries.
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    Emissions trading, carbon financing and indigenous peoples

    Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2008
    Greenhouse gas abatement activities can have both beneficial and detrimental impacts on the communities in which they operate. For this reason, it is vital that Indigenous communities have accurate information about carbon financing and carbon market processes at the outset – to help them make informed decisions and choices about activities that work for them.
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    Is all competition good? party systems and public good provision in Mexico’s provincial governments

    Duke University Library, 2007
    The literature on decentralisation and democracy does not recognise that the decisions made by politicians at the local level may vary with contextual conditions. They may differ in important ways across levels of government and with serious consequences for social policy and poverty alleviation.

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