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Chinese foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean: China-Latin America cross-council taskforce
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2013Although Chinese corporations were relatively unknown in Latin America until a few years ago, their direct investments in the region have averaged about US$10 billion per year since 2010.DocumentMediating criminal violence: lessons from the gang truce in El Salvador
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2013During the 1980s El Salvador suffered a bitterly contested civil war. Negotiations mediated by the United Nations concluded in a peace agreement in 1992 and set the course for the, largely smooth, assimilation of former guerrillas in the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) into Salvadoran political life.DocumentAn alternative to mercantilism: manufacturing extension services in Latin American and Caribbean countries
2013Within Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) economies, small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) dominate manufacturing, accounting for the vast majority, over 98 percent, of manufacturing firms and about one-third of manufacturing output.DocumentAdvancing gender equality through the budget: Latin American experiences with gender-responsive budgeting
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013Latin America is leading the way in gender-responsive budgeting and is producing some insightful lessons for other regions of the world.Gender inequality is particularly prevalent in developing regions where it prevents millions of women from exercising the basic human rights they are entitled to.DocumentActive labour market policies in Latin America
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013In Latin America, active labour market policies are helping to improve access to decent jobs by disadvantaged workers and are also demonstrating the potential to reduce informality, underemployment and inequality.OrganisationWWF Brazil (WWF)
WWF Brazil is a Brazilian NGO, participant and an international network committed to nature conservation within the social and economic environment in Brazil.DocumentThe age of microfinance: destroying Latin American economies from the bottom up
Österreichische Forschungsstiftung fur Entwicklungshilfe / Austrian Foundation for Development Research, 2013The microfinance model that arrived in Latin America in the 1970s, according to this paper, has proven, as elsewhere around the world, to be an almost wholly destructive economic and social policy intervention.DocumentSocial protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: plurinational State of Bolivia
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2013Poverty affects about 5.5 million people in the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Accordingly, poverty-reduction policies have become extremely relevant in the country during the last decades.DocumentThe Cotton Field case in Mexico: setting legal precedents for fighting gender-based violence | ELLA
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013Systemic discrimination is a key driver of gender-based violence in Latin America. So how is a key ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights helping to improve the protection of women’s rights across the region?DocumentBuilding legal frameworks to address femicide In Latin America
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013By reforming national penal codes and enacting special laws, Latin American countries are taking first steps towards eradicating femicide in the region.Pages