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  Trade policy, income risk and welfare

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005

  This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and assesses the corresponding welfare effects. Based on data on Mexican workers it estimates individual income risk in various manufacturing sectors.
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  Medium-term effects of the Oportunidades program package, including nutrition, on education of rural children age 0-8 in 1997

  Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Mexico (National Institute of Public Health), 2005

  This paper provides estimates of the medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades programme in rural Mexico on education for children aged 0 to 8 in 1997 just prior to the initial intervention, and those aged 6 to 14 in the 2003 Rural Evaluation Survey.The main findings include: the age group 3 to 5 in 1997 most likely did not benefit from the early nutritional intervention and also by 2003
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  Global networked readiness for education

  World Bank Institute, World Bank, 2003

  This series of global and national reports contain preliminary findings from the September - November 2003 pilot deployment of the Global Networked Readiness for Education Survey Toolkit.
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  Lessons offered by Latin American cash transfer programmes, Mexico’s Oportunidades and Nicaragua’s SPN: implications for African countries

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2005

  This paper, published by the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre, discusses and compares cash transfer programmes intended to tackle poverty in Mexico, Nicaragua, Zambia and Malawi. The paper argues that transferring cash to families has many advantages: it is simple to administer and gives the families freedom to decide how to spend the money.
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  Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

  World Bank, 2005

  The definition of empowerment used in this paper is a person's capacity to make choices and transform these choices into desired actions and outcomes. The extent to which a person is empowered is influenced by personal agency (the capacity to make a purposive choice) and opportunity structure (the institutional context in which choice is made).
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  Who conserves the world’s forests?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Traditional approaches to conserving biodiversity are based on the management of protected areas.
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  Forthcoming changes in the EU banana and sugar markets: a menu ofoptions for an effective EU transitional package

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Preferential access under the EU’s Sugar and Banana Protocols has supported large income transfers to a number of ACP countries. These transfers will be reduced under proposed reforms to the EU’s sugar and banana markets which are due to take place at the end of 2005.
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  Cash transfers can reduce childhood poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Forty percent of children in developing countries struggle to survive on less than one US dollar a day, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Childhood poverty often leads to long term vulnerability. It is associated with lower educational attainment and schooling which affects future earning potential and well-being.
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  Market failures in health and education investment for the young, Mexico 2000

  Global Development Network, 2003

  The diffusion and use of knowledge in economic activities has become one of the crucial determinants of economic growth. Moreover, pro-market reforms have made the accumulation of human capital and knowledge central to economic growth.
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  Globalisation and monetary policy in emerging markets

  Bank for International Settlements, 2005

  This document is a compilation of papers dealing with the effects of financial integration on emerging markets. The compilation holds a number of background papers which explore general issues of globalisation and monetary policy in emerging markets.

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