Search

Searching in Mexico

Showing 351-360 of 617 results

Pages

• Document

  Global trade and development

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2006

  This briefing paper considers the different ways in which trade affects development and global poverty, focusing particularly on the effects on economic integration on America.
• Document

  Disabilities and gender in primary education

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003

  To monitor the inclusion of students with disabilities in the context of Education for All (EFA), it will be necessary to have statistics on the numbers of primary school age children with a disability, by age and gender.
• Document

  Multicentre study of acute alcohol use and non-fatal injuries: data from the WHO collaborative study on alcohol and injuries

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2006

  This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), examines the link between drinking alcohol and the risk of non-fatal injury. It draws on data collected from hospital emergency departments in Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, India, Mexico, Mozambique, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden.
• Document

  Learning to teach in the knowledge society

  World Bank, 2005

  This report examines teacher training needs of secondary education teachers in developing countries. It provides a literature review, and provides in depth case studies from Vietnam, Cambodia, Ghana, Senegal, Chile and Mexico.
• Document

  The cost of poverty alleviation transfer programmes: a comparative analysis of three programmes in Latin America

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  A common criticism of social safety net programmes is that large proportions of their budgets are absorbed by administrative costs.
• Document

  A cost-effectiveness analysis of demand- and supply-side education interventions: the case of PROGRESA in Mexico

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper is concerned with the issue of the most cost-effective way of improving access to education for poor households in developing countries. The authors consider two alternatives: extensive expansion of the school system (bringing education to the poor) and subsidising investment in education by the poor (bringing the poor to the education system).
• Document

  PROGRESA and its impacts on the welfare of rural households in Mexico

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  In early 1998, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was asked to assist the PROGRESA administration to "determine if PROGRESA is functioning in practice as it is intended to by design".
• Document

  A new approach to social assistance: Latin America’s experience with conditional cash transfer programs

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper reviews the experience of the Latin America and Caribbean region in introducing conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes which provide money to poor families conditional upon investments in human capital, usually sending children to school and/or bringing them to health centers on a regular basis.
• Document

  A comparison of the social vulnerability of grain farmers in Mexico and Argentina

  Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change, 2006

  This paper focuses specifically on the various factors that differentiate farm enterprises and farm households, both in terms of their sensitivity to climate events and their capacity to adjust to changing climatic and market circumstances.
• Document

  Water rights for indigenous people in Mexico

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Many water resources in Mexico run through indigenous areas. Mexican governments have often made management decisions on the basis of perceived economic needs, rather than concern for the people and ecosystems involved. This trend continues today, despite recent agreements with indigenous groups over water use.

Pages