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    A better quality of life?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Remittances have an important role to play in the economic development of a country. Yet their impact is primarily seen at the regional and local level as a source of income to improve the wellbeing of thousands of households in migrant-sending countries.
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    Improving health and education

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Remittances encourage investment in education and health, especially for children. New research suggests they can help families break the cycle of poverty and improve living conditions for future generations.
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    Do remittances reduce poverty?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    International remittances to developing countries will total around US$167 billion in 2005, more than twice official aid flows. Despite the ever-increasing size of international remittances, little attention has been paid to their effect on poverty and income distribution in developing countries and many policy questions remain unanswered.
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    Stealing the future: corruption in the classroom

    Transparency International, 2005
    This report presents ten studies carried out in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Georgia, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Sierra Leone and Zambia.
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    MDGs mask injustice and inequality in Latin America

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Make Poverty History, the collective of international development organisations calling on the world’s governments and leaders to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, caught the public’s imagination. 2005 is an important year that demands we all back the campaign to institute fair trade, drop the debt and provide more aid.
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    Learning process affects business growth in Latin America

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    A small Latin American enterprise can only increase its competitiveness in international markets through two options: locate within a geographical business ‘cluster’ or develop relationships with suppliers, distributors, buyers and marketers in a ‘global value chain’. These are generally defined as the two most effective strategies for sustainable growth.
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    No change, despite the ‘Indigenous People’s Decade’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Indigenous peoples represent ten percent of Latin America’s population. Despite increased political influence over the last decade, indigenous groups have seen few economic or social improvements. They continue to suffer higher rates of poverty, lower educational levels and more disease and discrimination than non-indigenous peoples. They are the region’s largest disadvantaged group.
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    The FDI – employment link in a globalizing world: the case of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

    International Labour Organization, 2005
    This study analyses the evolution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the increasing role of transnational companies (TNCs) in the domestic economies of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and will then in a second part outline the motivations and the different forms of FDI.
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    Globalization, informal recycling and the MDGs on the U.S.-Mexico border: the cartoneros of Los Dos Laredos

    Global Development Network, 2005
    In developing countries, scavenging is perceived as an occupation operating on the margins of the society. Yet, scavengers can be part of the solution to the insufficient collection and inappropriate disposal of solid wastes. This paper analyses the scavenging population involved in the informal recovery of cardboard in Laredo, a Mexican city located along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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    Revaluing peasant coffee production: organic and fair trade markets in Mexico

    Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2005
    The emergence of significant new markets for organic and “fairly traded” products has been hailed as an important part of the effort to address the chronic poverty suffered by many small-scale coffee producers in the developing world.

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