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  Water, sanitation and hygiene: primary concerns for public health

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The health benefits of clean drinking water, sanitation facilities and hygienic practices, like hand washing, are well known. But health is rarely the primary motivation for developing water and sanitation facilities, nor is it the health sector that usually pays for them. What are the real costs and benefits for human health of providing these services?
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  Indigenous peoples, poverty and human development in Latin America: 1994-2004

  World Bank, 2005

  This executive summary presents findings of a report exploring whether the UN International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, opened in 1994, was accompanied by material and human development gains for Indigenous Peoples in Latin America.Findings of the report include:few gains were made in income poverty reduction among Indigenous Peoples during the Indigenous Peoples’ decade (
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  How does fiscal policy affect monetary policy in emerging market countries?

  Bank for International Settlements, 2005

  Based on empirical evidence on the relation between fiscal and monetary policy, this paper analyses how fiscal policy affects monetary policy in emerging economies (EM). The paper highlights that fiscal dominance can be, or become, an important issue for EMs, as these economies have, in recent years, experienced an increase in public debt and fiscal imbalance.
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  NAFTA's promise and reality: lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003

  The report has two objectives: to determine how quality of life in Mexico has been affected by trade liberalisation in North America. It focuses on the microlevel of people and their communities, on changes in household income, paychecks, rural employment and agricultural production.
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  Education choices in Mexico: using a structural model and a randomised experiment to evaluate Progresa

  Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2005

  This paper evaluates a large welfare programme in rural Mexico called Progresa, whose main aim is to improve the process of human capital accumulation in the poorest communities by providing cash transfers conditional on specific types of behaviour in three key areas targeted by the programme: nutrition, health and education.The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of monetary incentives
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  Into good hands: progress reports from the field (a companion to the Maternal Mortality Update 2004)

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This booklet, a companion to the Maternal Mortality Update 2004, documents research and interventions to improve skilled care at birth throughout the developing world.
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  Home-based workers: neglected by policy-makers and labour organisers?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Homeworkers are a flexible and cheap labour force and almost 80 percent of them are female. They are ‘invisible’ in the regular labour market and their interests and priorities are not at the forefront of political or labour organisations. It is difficult for them to demand higher wages, job security or improved working conditions.
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  Women: still the key to food and nutrition security

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This brief discusses its research findings emphasising that empowering women is the key to ensuring food and nutrition security in the developing world.
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  Dignity counts: a guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights

  International Budget Partnership, 2004

  This paper aims to provide guidance to civil society organizations (CSOs) and others on how to use budget analysis as a tool to support the assessment of a government’s compliance with its economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights obligations.
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  The impact of conditional cash transfers on human development outcomes: a review of evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico and some implications for policy debates in South and Southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This paper reflects on assessments of Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer scheme (called PROGRESA) and draws comparisons with South Africa's Child Support Grant (CSG).

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