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  AIDS mortality, "race or color", and social inequality in a context of universal access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in Brazil, 1999-2004

  Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2007

  This paper analyses AIDS deaths in Brazil during a period in which HAART became a key treatment regimen, exploring the hypothesis that race or colour defines one dimension of socioeconomic inequality in Brazil. AIDS mortality, stratified by gender and race or colour, was calculated using data from the Brazilian National Mortality System.
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  Intellectual property and access to clean energy technologies in developing countries: an analysis of solar photovoltaic, bio fuel and wind technologies

  Trade and Environment, 2007

  This paper explores whether developing countries will face barriers accessing technologies in reducing their emissions of greenhouse gases. Focusing on intellectual property rights (IP), it concentrates on the more scientifically advanced developing countries such as Brazil, China, and India.
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  Meat and milk: developing countries and the global livestock trade

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  The global demand for meat and milk is growing, as populations increase and incomes rise. Retailers and fast food outlets are benefiting but is this growth reducing poverty in developing countries?
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  Forecasting bonds yields in the Brazilian fixed income market

  Banco Central do Brasil, 2007

  This paper assesses the ability of different models to forecast the yield curve in the Brazilian fixed income market. Affine term structure models have become the main tool to explain stylised facts and price fixed income derivatives. The authors compare such affine term structure models with a variation of the Nelson-Siegel exponential framework developed by Diebold and Li (2006).
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  Can renewable energy help reduce poverty?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  Current patterns of energy production are polluting, unsustainable and characterised by unequal consumption and access. Finding appropriate energy solutions for economic growth and increased social equity, while protecting the environment, is a massive challenge. Some countries are showing how to develop renewable energy technologies suited to local conditions.
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  Cadernos de Saúde Pública

  Cadernos de Saúde Pública/Reports in Public Health (CSP) is a monthly journal published by the National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil.
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  Effect of city-wide sanitation programme on reduction in rate of childhood diarrhoea in northeast Brazil: assessment by two cohort studies

  The Lancet, 2007

  This Lancet article investigates the effect of a sanitation programme in Salvador, Brazil, on diarrhoea morbidity in children less than three years of age. The programme was started in 1997 to improve the coverage of the sewerage system in the city from 26 per cent of households to 80 per cent.
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  Education for all by 2015: the good news

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Since 2000 enormous steps have been made towards achieving universal enrolment at primary education level. More girls are in school than ever before. Aid has supported effective national efforts in many countries. There is a ‘Dakar effect’ – evidence that working towards common education goals can strengthen countries to change individual lives.
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  Strengthening the capacity of developing countries to prepare for and participate in negotiations on future actions under the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol: the BASIC project final report

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  The role of large developing countries in combating climate change will become increasingly important as the world negotiates a post-2012 agreement on climate change. This report summarises the activities undertaken by the BASIC Project (Building and Strengthening Institutional Capacities on Climate Change in Brazil, India, China and South Africa).
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  Participatory democracy in Brazil and local geographies: Porto Alegre and Belo Horizonte compared

  Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, University of Amsterdam, 2007

  This paper presents a comparative evaluation of participatory budgeting experience in the cities of Porto Alegre and Belo Horizonte in Brazil with the objective of finding out how local circumstances or geographies can affect outcomes.

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