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    Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries: Statistics for 1970-96

    International Finance Corporation, 1997
    National accounts normally do not break down gross domestic investment into its private and public sector components. Private investment is defined in this paper as the difference between total gross domestic investment(from national accounts) and consolidated public investment.
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    Trends in Adolescent Fertility and Contraceptive Use in the Developing World

    International Programs Center, Population Division of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1996
    Survey data from 56 countries have been assembled in this report to describe recent trends in adolescent reproductive behavior and the correlates of that behavior. Four key determinants of adolescent fertility are considered: residence, female educational attainment, age at marriage, and contraceptive use.
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    Geographic Targeting: Its Effects on Poverty Reduction

    Poverty Lines, World Bank, 1998
    How effective is geographic targeting as a means for channeling public resources to the poor? Draws on several Latin American case studies
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    The Importance of the Local Government in the Management of the Costal Line in Chile: The case of the Sixth Region

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998
    Paper on the legal and policy issues relating to the integrated management of the coastal area of Chile.
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    Fiscal Strengthening of Local Government in Mexico

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998
    The fiscal strengthening of local government has become one of the main issues on the agenda of most Latin American governments. The closer contact with the electorate, and the knowledge of the local authorities about the specific needs of their communities have both been recognised. Strategies to achieve this objective have differed within the region.
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    Mexican Local Government in Transition, Fleeting Changes or Permanent Transformation?

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998
    In recent years, several innovation processes have taken place within Mexican Local Government: in the leadership style of mayors, in social participation mechanisms, in intergovernmental relations, and in public management systems. These changes have led to an improvement in governmental performance and opening up and democratisation of the system of local governance.
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    Where is Local Government Going in Latin America?: a comparative perspective

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 1998
    A major process of decentralisation has been under way in Latin America since the mid-1980s. The reasons for it have been extensively debated. The main features of this process, including greater formal political autonomy for and financial strengthening of local government, as well as the transfer of competencies from central to local government, have also been widely discussed.
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    The Inter-American Development Bank and Poverty Reduction: An Overview

    1998
    Overview of how lending and non-lending activities of the Inter-American Development Bank can contribute to reducing poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, and also offers suggestions for future actions that the Bank can take in this area.
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    Case Studies of Two Women's Health Projects in Bolivia

    Family Health International, 1996
    Profiles two programs in Bolivia: La Casa de la Mujer in Santa Cruz and the Kumar Warmi (Health Woman) clinic operated by the Centro de Informacion y Desarrollo de la Mujer (CIDEM) in El Alto. Both programs involve women in the design and delivery of health care, and both offer health care as one of an array of services designed to improve women's quality of life.
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    Case Study of the Women's Center of Jamaica Foundation, Program for Adolescent Mothers

    Family Health International, 1996
    Addresses the serious socioeconomic and health consequences of adolescent pregnancy, the Women's Center of Jamaica Foundation offers the Program for Adolescent Mothers.

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