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    Earnings inequalities and educational mobility in Brazil over two decades

    Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2005
    This paper studies the impact of changes in educational opportunities on various definitions of labour market inequalities in Brazil over two decades (1976-96).
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    Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbours

    Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2005
    In this paper the authors document and analyse the evolution of GDP per capita in the Northeast and in other regions of Brazil. They use measures of GDP per capita at the municipality level computed in 1970 and 1996.
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    Growing exports: the Brazilian tropical timber industry and international markets

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003
    This study investigates how plans by the Brazilian government to more than double its share of the global timber market can be achieved, The Government plans to improve the quantity of sustainably managed forest in private areas and to increase exports from sustainable sources from 5% to 30% by 2010Nine areas of concern which require urgent attention are highlighted: better business pr
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    Poverty among women in Latin America: feminisation or over-representation?

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    The concept of the feminisation of poverty (the extent and multi-faceted impacts of poverty on women) has become widely accepted among women's advocates. This paper questions the usefulness of resources invested in policies based on this concept.The prime objective of the paper is to investigate the occurrence of this feminisation.
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    Financing energy efficiency: lessons from recent experience with a focus on Brazil, China and India

    International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Minsk, 2006
    Without gains from energy efficiency efforts, China, India and Brazil are projected to more than double their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in a single generation, resulting in major impacts on the global energy system and climate.
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    Using community conservation to achieve the MDGs

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In many places, globalisation, inappropriate policies and malpractices in government and non-government organisations have resulted in the degradation of many ecosystems. Official conservation policies are often failing to stop this decline. Can community-based conservation efforts achieve better results?
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    Beyond timber: certifying sustainable forest products

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) provide 80 percent of the world’s population with resources such as medicine, food and shelter. They also generate extra income for poor rural communities. In the mid-1990s certification was introduced for NTFPs: has this contributed to rural livelihoods and forest conservation?
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    Integrated urban upgrading for the poor: the experience of Ribeira Azul, Salvador, Brazil

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006
    An integrated urban upgrading initiative was implemented the low-income neighbourhood of Ribeira Azul in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in 1999. The program combines infrastructure and social interventions and is thought to have had a positive impact on living conditions. Now forming the basis for the State's urban development strategy, the similar programmes are to be implemented state-wide.
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    Gender and desertification: expanding roles for women to restore drylands

    Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau, 2006
    In many of the world's drylands, women's traditional knowledge of and roles in natural resource management and food security are crucial. Women across the developing world spend considerable proportions of their time using and preserving land for food and fuel production, and for generating income for their families and communities.
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    Governance reform and institutional change in Brazil: fiscal responsibility and tax

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    This paper contrasts two processes of governance reform that occurred in Brazil in the 1990s, one in relation to fiscal responsibility, the other in relation to tax.

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