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    Assessing the governance of electricity regulatory agencies in the Latin American and Caribbean region: a bench marking analysis

    World Bank, 2007
    This paper focuses on an evaluation and benchmarking of the governance of regulatory agencies in the electricity sector in Latin American Countries. The authors develop an index of regulatory governance and rank all the agencies in the region.
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    Youth risk-taking behavior in Brazil: drug use and teenage pregnancy

    Social Development, World Bank, 2008
    Youth risk-taking behaviour - such as drug use, engagement in violence, school  dropout, and teenage pregnancy - is known to have far-reaching implications on health, education, employment prospects, and income, which extend into adulthood.
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    Can mothers rely on the Brazilian health system for their deliveries? An assessment of use of the public system and out-of-pocket expenditure in the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study, Brazil

    Health Services Research [journal], 2008
    In Brazil, even though comprehensive free health care is provided through a public health system, an unexpected high frequency of catastrophic out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure has been described. This paper, published in BMC health services research, studies how mothers finance maternity services and whether deliveries constitute an important source of household OOP expenditure.
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    Brazilian perspectives on human security

    Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa, 2007
    The paper shows that human security is more than a normative framework and must be reformulated into an operational and analytical tool. It begins by looking at the concept of human security, considering its links and practical applications to the problems of human violence.
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    Subjective well-being in cities: a cross-cultural analysis in Bogotá, Belo Horizonte and Toronto

    ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2007
    This paper studies subjective well-being in Bogotá (Colombia), Belo-Horizonte (Brazil) and Toronto (Canada) using the Personal and National Well-being Indices (PWI, NWI) and a measure of satisfaction with life as a whole.
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    Community focus is key to eliminating filariasis

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Lymphatic filariasis (LF) affects at least 120 million people worldwide, with a further billion at risk according to World Health Organization estimates. Although an LF elimination programme is underway, could poor understanding of the social and cultural aspects of the disease threaten the programme’s success?
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    Could agriculture help to prevent further climate change?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    There is growing evidence that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity contribute to climate change. Many people blame modern farming practices for accelerating this - agriculture produces between 16.8 and 32.2 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. But could agriculture also hold some solutions to climate change?
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    A tale of two countries spatial and temporal patterns of rice productivity in China and Brazil

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    Increasing population growth and scarcity of land suitable for rice production suggest that China and Brazil need to further increase rice productivity if they hope to continue meeting the increasing demand for food. This paper examines differences in the spatial and temporal variations of rice yields in both China and Brazil.
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    Food and energy sovereignty now: Brazilian grassroots position on agroenergy

    The Oakland Institute, 2008
    Brazil is the global leader in ethanol exports, providing 70% of the world's supply in 2006. While official accounts of the Brazilian government’s experiment with biofuels laud it as a global model for sustainable biomass production, it is increasingly being criticised and opposed by national social movements.
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    Can all cash transfers reduce inequality?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This one-page document examines the impact of three Latin American Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes providing cash transfers to poor families, conditioned on children’s school attendance and regular medical checks-ups.

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