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    Climate instruments for the transport sector: considerations for the post 2012 climate regime

    Asian Development Bank, 2010
    This report uses case studies conducted in Asian and Latin American cities to explore how urban transport policies and programmes could be developed as supported Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs). The report covers issues related to the scope, institutional involvement, financing and monitoring of NAMAs:
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    The new competition for land: Food, energy, and climate change

    Science Direct, 2011
    This paper discusses the competition for land resources and the issue of land-use change due to the rising demand for food and energy, specifically for the transport sector. The linkages between land, food, and energy become particularly complex within the context of climate change.
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    Dispute settlement at the WTO: the developing country experience

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2010
    The WTO’s Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) provides a singularly effective mechanism by which WTO members can seek the full implementation of previously negotiated trade concessions. This publication aims at exploring strategies to enhance the participation and legal capacity of developing countries in WTO dispute settlement. The study notes that: 
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    China, India, South Africa, Brazil (BASIC): Crucial for the global environment. Commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment

    ECON Pöyry, 2011
    This study, commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment, aims to assess why and how the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China) are important for the global environment. The study shall also provide an overview of environmental policy in the BASIC countries.
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    ‘Our lives matter: sex workers unite for health and rights’

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2008
    This report highlights the creative ways in which sex workers in eight countries have organised to defend their human rights and health. The groups featured in this report include:
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    Brazilian national response to HIV/AIDS amongst sex workers

    Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association), 2010
    National STI/HIV/AIDS prevention policies and programmes directed at sex workers adopted in Brazil since the late 1980s have had significant positive effects in:
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    Demographic transition and the regulatory shortcomings of Brazil’s social security

    National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil, 2011
    In two decades Brazil has built a comprehensive welfare state, but it is very costly  and ill prepared to face the ageing of the Brazilian population - by 2050 Brazilians 65 or older will represent 23% of total population, while the workforce will be shrinking.
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    National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil (ANPEC)

    The National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics of Brazil website (in Portuguese) provides access to the journal Economia.
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    The Millennium Development Goals: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2005
    This paper looks at the differences across countries in Latin American and Caribbean region in terms of their chances of attaining the Goals and, wherever possible, the differences between trends in various segments of the population (classified by gender, ethnic group, age group, place of residence and income stratum) as a means of helping to pinpoint the areas in which efforts must be redoubled
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    Domestic emission trading systems in developing countries: state of play and future prospects

    Wuppertal Institute, 2011
    This article analyses possible domestic emissions trading systems (ETS) for six developing countries: Brazil, China, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, and South Korea. It also analyses the prospects of linking the developing countries to existing trading systems, in order to establish a harmonised international carbon market.

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