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Costs of Adolescent Childbearing: A Review of Evidence from Chile, Barbados, Guatemala and Mexico
1998The region is plagued by persistent poverty. Does early childbearing perpetuate it? What are the social and economic impacts of adolescent childbearing on mothers and children?DocumentAn Inventory of Poverty Lines for Latin America and the Caribbean: 1985-1997
1998The tables in this document present an inventory of some of the available poverty lines for all IDB member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The listed poverty lines are expressed as per capita monthly amounts of nominal local currency and are estimated based on the reference (fieldwork) period of the survey to which they apply.DocumentWomen's rights and status: questions of analysis and measurement
Gender in Development Programme, UNDP, 1998Overview of indicators and conceptual frameworks which could be use to measure women's status and rights.DocumentThe evaluation of the International Comparison Project (ICP)
United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 1998Report on value of indicator data collected by the programme (including Purchasing Power Parities (PPP’s) and the methods by which these indicators are disseminated. Argues that the indicators are useful, but that the speed of their dissemination must be drastically improvedDocumentFashion victims: The Asian garment industry and globalisation
Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998Report looks at the impact of globalisation on the lives of garment workers in Asia. Urban Missionaries, a CAFOD partner in the Philippines, carried out research on the increasing use of temporary contracts in the garment industry. In Sri Lanka, People’s Forum for Development Alternatives (PEFDA) interviewed workers in the Kandy and Kurunegala areas.DocumentDemystifying Poverty Lines
Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998Poverty lines are widely perceived as occupying a central role in poverty analysis. In fact, setting a poverty line often receives the bulk of attention and intellectual effort in studies of poverty. This paper reviews the uses to which poverty lines are put. It discusses the different methods for con-structing a poverty line and the implicit and explicit assumptions in each approach.DocumentEnvironment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations
Overseas Development Institute, 1999The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.DocumentA Small Econometric Model of the Zambian Economy
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999Estimates a small macroeconometric model of the Zambian economy. It is based on annual data from 1967 to 1997 and provides projections for 1998 and 1999. The estimates are derived using Three Stage Least Squares (3SLS) method for simultaneous equations systems.DocumentDeforestation and Land Use on the Evolving Frontier: An Empirical Assessment [in Nicaragua]
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999The advance of the agricultural frontier constitutes the biggest source of deforestation in Central America today. This conversion of tropical forests into agricultural land and pasture is the direct result of individual land use decisions.DocumentJoint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt
Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999Latest international data available, mainly from creditor sources, on the external debt of developing and transition countries and territories. The information is presented in the form of country tables that are updated quarterly.Pages