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    Creating Spaces of Resistance: Development NGOs and their Clients in Ghana, India and Mexico

    Blackwell Synergy, 2004
    Development NGOs have been accused by some of being new instruments of control, domesticated by the neo-liberal project. This paper argues, however, that although the majority of women's NGOs have been co-opted to serve mainstream development agendas, such groups nevertheless do bring women together away from men, and create social spaces for women to set their own priorities.
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    Being prepared for unexpected events can help prevent poverty

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Economic shocks and other unexpected events, such as family illness or crop failure, can cause poor households to fall deeper into poverty. To cope with such crises, households may cut down on non-food consumption in order to maintain their usual levels of food intake.
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    The missing links between foreign investment and development: lessons from Costa Rica and Mexico

    Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2006
    A developing country will derive long-lasting development benefits from FDI only if there is the right coincidence between its location-specific assets and Transnational Corporations’ (TNCs) global interests, and the right match between the country’s national linkage capability and TNCs’ strategic interest in domestic sourcing.This paper argues that Costa Rica and Mexico have been very successf
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    Political parties: when do they work for women?

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005
    This paper analyses the interaction of gender issues with political parties in Latin America in order to assess the relationship between them and establish under what circumstances political parties best incorporate gender demands and contribute to mainstream the gender perspective.In Latin America, political parties are advancing gender-related initiatives.
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    Getting real about inequality: evidence from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006
    Differences in spending patterns across households, together with differences in the evolution of prices across goods, imply that different households face different inflation rates.
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    Involving Men to Address Gender Inequities

    2003
    How can development organisations most constructively engage men in reproductive health issues? This report by the IGWG Men and Reproductive Health Subcommittee describes three programmes which have worked with men and young people to improve reproductive health for both men and women.
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    Lessons from an integrated approach to poverty reduction in Mexico

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación (PROGRESA) was launched in the 1990s to improve the well-being of Mexico’s poorest people. It targets 2.6 million families – one in nine Mexican families – and combines health, education and nutrition projects. As similar programmes are being implemented elsewhere, lessons can be learned from evaluation of Mexico’s programme.
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    Politics, science and shrimp farming – whose ‘objectivity’ counts?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Shrimp farming is a major industry in many developing countries, providing important foreign exchange and offering potential for economic development, particularly in rural areas. However, since the early 1990s, researchers, activists and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been protesting about its environmental and social impacts.
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    Environmental goods and services: a synthesis of country studies

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005
    This study presents a synthesis of 17 country studies on environmental goods and services (EG&S). The countries examined are Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Thailand and Vietnam.
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    Gender matters

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Are remittance flows gender-neutral? Does it matter if the people involved in these transactions are male or female? Do remittances reshape gender relations? Most studies examine how much money is sent home, how to lower transfer costs or what percentage of a country’s Gross Domestic Product remittances represent.

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