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  id21 viewpoint: Conservation and human displacement: what should conservation NGOs do?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Millions of rural and indigenous people are displaced from their lands each year. Indigenous advocates and social scientists criticise conservation organisations for promoting protected areas for biodiversity conservation, which can cause displacement. The conservation community must respond.
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  Shifting ground - implications of international cooperation for civil society organisations in Latin America, 2000-2007

  CARE International, 2007

  International and national dynamics in Latin America are reconfiguring the relationships between the main development actors. These dynamics are shifting the ground for civil society organisations and impacting on their ability to fulfil their role in fighting poverty and inequality and promoting democratisation.
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  Polishing the stone: A Journey Through the Promotion of Gender Equality in Development Projects

  International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2007

  It is now generally accepted that gender equity contributes to development, yet there are still remarkable differences between the access women and men have to assets, decision-making, power and participation in productive and reproductive activities.
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  Study on various elements of rural transport safety: a synthesis of pilot case studies from Sri Lanka, India, Madagascar, Cameroon and Peru

  International Forum for Rural Transport and Development, 2007

  This paper by the International Forum for Rural Transport and Development reports on five studies in India, Peru, Cameroon, Madagascar and Sri Lanka that explore how rural transport safety issues affect the lives of women, men and children in rural areas.
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  “You are not going there to amuse yourself”: barriers to achieving wellbeing through international migration: the case of Peruvian migrants in London and Madrid

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2007

  International migration from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to the EU has grown steadily in recent years. But how do these migrants see their situation and what kind of obstacles do they face? This paper uses a wellbeing analysis to explore perceived obstacles to achieving wellbeing amongst a sample of 99 Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid.
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  Child labour and schooling response to changes in coca production in rural Peru

  Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2007

  What impact do coca eradication policies aimed at reducing the production and distribution of cocaine in the Andes have on households? This paper examines the shift in the production of coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyse the indirect effects of the anti-coca policy on children’s allocation of time. Main results include that:
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  Can improved transport increase safety risks?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  The Peruvian government has embarked on a programme to improve road and rural trails. How has this development of the transport system affected local people in Peru, especially the safety and security of women and children?
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  Comercio y Pobreza en Latinoamérica (COPLA)

  This site brings you the all the news and resources from the Trade and Poverty in Latin America programme (COPLA), a 2-year project funded by the UK Department for International Development.
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  Budget policy and income distribution

  International Studies Programmme, Georgia State University, 2007

  This paper provides an overview of the conceptual bases of incidence analyses. It highlights some measurement issues, reviews the main techniques used to estimate tax, benefit and fiscal incidence, and summarises the empirical results that have been obtained for developing countries.
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  Holding the IDB and IFC to account on Camisea II

  Amazon Watch, 2007

  Located in a remote, inhabited area of the Peruvian rainforest, the Camisea Natural Gas Project (“Camisea I”) is arguably one of the most controversial “development” projects currently in operation anywhere in the Amazon basin.

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