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    Policing, regime change, and democracy: reflections from the case of Mexico

    Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2007
    This paper explores the experience of attempts to introduce new policing operations and restore order in post-revolutionary Mexico, with the aim of generating policy insights for countries experiencing regime change, and in particular Iraq.
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    Understanding poverty in rural Mexico

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In situations where inequality and ethnicity are important aspects of poverty, policymakers need to understand the range of strategies people use to survive. Different groups within communities use different livelihood strategies, according to their wealth. To achieve sustainable development, policies must be targeted at their varying needs.
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    Africa’s turn: a new Green Revolution for the 21st century

    Rockefeller Foundation, 2006
    The ‘Green Revolution’ originated in initiatives in Latin America and Asia, which were made up of a combination of philanthropy, agricultural research, training of scientists and farmers, and government policy. This paper argues that it is now time for a Green Revolution in Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa where per-capita food production continues to worsen year by year.
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    Engaging neoliberal conservation

    Conservation and Society, 2008
    The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broader context of neoliberalism. This latest edition of Conservation and Society journal explores what can be gained by seeing conservation through a neoliberal lense.
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    Can all cash transfers reduce inequality?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This one-page document examines the impact of three Latin American Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes providing cash transfers to poor families, conditioned on children’s school attendance and regular medical checks-ups.
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    Hospital governance in Latin America: results from a four nation survey

    Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2007
    This World Bank discussion paper reports on a survey of hospital governance in Latin America involving nearly 400 hospitals in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
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    Latin America: the downside of the GM revolution

    Center for International Policy, 2007
    The author argues that nowhere in the world have the effects of GM crops been felt as intensely as in South America. Although the soy boom is lauded as a success story by landowners, agribusiness, biotechnology corporations, and South American governments, the article claims this has come at an enormous environmental and social cost.
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    Cutting edge: how community forest enterprises lead the way on poverty reduction and avoided deforestation

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    Forests are not just crucial for keeping the global environment stable; they are also a lifeline for hundreds of millions of the world's poor. This paper presents community forest enterprise as a possible solution, which combines both avoided deforestation (the concept of richer nations paying poorer ones to halt planned logging) and poverty reduction.
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    Patterns of political response to biofortified varieties of crops produced with different breeding techniques and agronomic traits

    AgBioForum, 2008
    This paper examines the political response to two crops that were nutritionally enhanced through conventional breeding - Quality Protein Maize (QPM) and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. It also looks at the political response to other food crops - maize, potato, and papaya ,as well as biofortified Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) rice, potatoes, cassava, and sorghum.
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    How can women enjoy equal access to urban property rights?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Women’s land rights in urban areas have been long overlooked as a development issue. There is increased awareness that traditional land tenure systems reinforce gender inequality but is it just a question of giving women formal title to property? Can alternative approaches to security of tenure better promote women’s interests?

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