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  Working with local institutions to support sustainable livelihoods

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This paper looks at the and policy implications of research conducted on local institution - rural household linkages.
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  Instruments for Gender Equality in Trade Agreements: European Union - Mercosur - Mexico

  Network Women in Development Europe, 2001

  This document proposes a set of indicators which allow an initial analysis of the effects of trade policies and expansion on women and gender relations. In particular these indicators are instruments with which to evaluate the effects of the EU's current trade policies and of the trade agreements between Mexico and the EU and between Mercosur and the EU.
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  Beyond being ‘open for business’: monitoring the impact of telecentres

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Telecentres can provide computer services and connect people on low incomes who could never afford a private connection. Some 10,000 telecentres were planned for Latin America and the Caribbean for 2003-04, to supplement the existing 5,000. But how many are still working? And what has been their impact on the communities they serve?
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  Labour and Social Issues Relating to Export Processing Zones, Report for discussion in the Tripartite Meeting of Export-Processing Zone-Operating Countries

  International Labour Organization, 1998

  It is now widely understood that women make up the majority of workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) - areas dedicated to the mass production of export commodities such as garments and electrical goods in large factories. The labour and social concerns of female workers differ from those of men.
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  Quick Notes on Gender Dimensions of Private Sector Development and Gender Entrepreneurship Markets

  EdInvest, International Finance Corporation, 2004

  Entrepreneurial women have engaged with private markets in diverse ways. These Quick Notes outline particular issues faced by women entrepreneurs and include best practice solutions in a range of countries and regions. Success stories from China, Jordan, South Africa, India, Mexico, New Zealand and Nepal highlight diverse ways in which women have engaged in private sector markets.
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  Household arrangements and economic poverty: a subjective well-being approach

  Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico, 2005

  From a subjective well-being approach, human poverty is understood as a situation where a person has very low life satisfaction or happiness while economic poverty refers to a situation of low economic satisfaction.
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  International migration, remittances and the brain drain

  World Bank Publications, 2005

  This study examines the economic effects of migration, especially its impact on economic development. A compilation of articles are structured into two parts in the volume.
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  Addressing inequity in health and health care In Mexico

  Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Mexico (National Institute of Public Health), 2002

  In spite of the improvement in life expectancy at birth in Mexico, major inequalities persist in health, access to health services and health care financing. This paper presents the inequities of the present system with an attempt to trace its origins.
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  Building human capital in an aging Mexico

  Global Aging Initiative Program, 2005

  United Nations' figures project that in 2050 one in five Mexicans will be aged over 65 and there will be equal numbers of children and elderly.
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  Investing in health for economic development (Report)

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  Being healthy is, on an individual and social level, considered an essential part of human welfare. Thus, recent analyses related to health emphasize the importance of health as one of the fundamental determinants of economic growth and poverty reduction.

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