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    Giving people a space in Brazil’s health councils

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Brazil’s system of health councils and conferences offers inspiring lessons. Thousands of Brazilian citizens, representing churches, women’s associations, unions and community groups, meet every month with people who provide health care.
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    Spaces for change?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Governance reforms in some countries have encouraged government officials to meet with citizens in formal meeting places to help make decisions at local and national levels. Citizens are increasingly able to participate in meetings, exchange information and negotiate agendas with state officials on issues concerning them.
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    Values and meanings of citizenship

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    What does citizenship mean to poor and socially excluded people? How do their views help us understand and analyse what ‘inclusive’ citizenship means?
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    Building inclusive citizenship and democracies

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Many citizens are disillusioned with government and democracy. Corruption, state failures to respond to poor people’s needs and a lack of connection between citizens and elected representatives and bureaucrats are major concerns. At the same time, citizens are challenging corporations and global institutions to be more responsible.
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    Budget monitoring and policy influence: lessons from civil society budget analysis and advocacy initiatives

    Overseas Development Institute, 2007
    This study examines the issues of budget accountability and budget policies. Within budget acountability it looks at budget groups’ impact on levels of budget transparency, public literacy and awareness of budget issues, and public engagement with budget processes. Budget policy includes for example investigation into the improvements in budget systems and shifts in allocations.
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    Regulatory gaps undermine corporate governance in Brazil’s privatised steel industry

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    In 1988 Brazil embarked on a huge privatisation programme. The privatisation of the steel sector began in the same year. This proved to be successful in terms of improving financial and productive efficiency in the steel industry. But has privatisation led to better corporate governance and a smaller role for the state?
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    Disabled Women and Independent Life in Brazil, Germany, Great Britain, India, Japan, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Russia, South Africa and Uganda

    Disability World, 2000
    Disabled women are discriminated against because they are women and also because they are disabled. Disabled women have played a very important part in the disabled people's movement since its inception. And yet, their contribution is often invisibilised or not properly acknowledged, in some occasions it is even not welcome.
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    Gráficas de brechas salariales para Brasil frente a economías desarrolladas y “emergentes” seleccionadas con datos salariales y PPC disponibles (1996-2005)

    La Alianza Global Jus Semper, 2008
    Este estudio, parte de una serie de La Alianza Global Jus Semper, contiene un conjunto de gráficas que detallan la creciente disparidad en salarios entre los trabajadores en Brasil y sus contrapartes equivalentes en otros países.
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    Gráficas de brechas salariales

    La Alianza Global Jus Semper, 2006
    Esta colección de gráficas presenta datos sobre brechas salariales del Grupo de las Siete (G7) mayores economías y otros países seleccionados, incluyendo a economías emergentes, para el periodo 1975-2004.
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    Associations and the exercise of citizenship in new democracies: evidence from São Paulo and Mexico City

    Centre for the Future State, IDS, 2007
    Associations are often seen in democratic theory as ‘schools of democracy’, which play a critical role in producing civic and active citizens. Based on research in São Paulo and Mexico City, this IDS paper argues that this may not be the case in newer democracies with authoritarian legacies.

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