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    The Brazilian Observatório: how to grow a network

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The Observatório health network in Brazil is an example of successful interaction between non-state, state and external partners - for public health policymaking. In addition to its direct benefits, Observatório illustrates how members’ capabilities contribute to a successful network. This has been instructive to organisations in different sectors across the world.
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    Future characteristics of the elderly in developing countries and their implications for policy

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2006
    This paper generates profiles of the elderly to 2050 on key characteristics for a set of thirteen developing countries that vary by region, size, economic level, and cultural traditions. Findings show dramatic shifts in the educational attainment and family size of the elderly over the next 30-40 years.
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    Integration of care and education: the challenge in Brazil

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2006
    The Brazilian government introduced a policy to integrate the administrative responsibility for day care centres for 0-3 year-olds and preschools for 4-6 year-olds into the education sector in 1996. But even after nine years, the two services are still far from being integrated.This Policy Briefing paper from UNESCO provides a summary of an interview with Dr.
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    NAMA state of play: countries negotiation positions

    South Centre, 2006
    This note presents, in a schematic form, the negotiating positions of selected WTO Members or Groups of Members, with particular focus on Non- Agricultural Market Access (NAMA). The Members or Groups of Members selcted are:United StatesEuropean CommissionJapan, NorwayKoreaCanada, N.
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    Making city growth work for poor people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Do poor people benefit from urban economic growth and if so, how? Conventional theory suggests that almost everyone should gain from economic growth. Eventually that growth should trickle down even to very poor people. In practice, however, the process has brought mixed results. The relationship between growth and poverty reduction is more complex.
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    Gender and land compendium of country studies

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2005
    This compendium provides an improved understanding of the complex issues concerning gender and land. It draws on research commissioned by FAO.
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    Promoting more gender-equitable norms and behaviors among young men as an HIV/AIDS prevention strategy

    Horizons, 2006
    This report, produced by the Horizons Project and Instituto Promundo, examines how gender-equitable behaviour among young men can affect rates of HIV and STI (sexually-transmitted infections). The study involved young men aged 14 to 25 in the favelas (low-income communities) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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    Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil: an analysis of the BPC continuous cash benefit programme

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006
    This paper presents an analysis of the Continuous Cash Benefit Programme (BCP, reflecting its Portuguese translation). Introduced in Brazil in 1993, it is the second largest non-contributary cash benefits programme in the country. Targetted at elderly or very poor individuals with disabilities, the transfer is equivalent to a monthly minimum wage.
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    Increasing accountability in education in Paraná State, Brazil

    Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2005
    This briefing paper discusses the creation of school report cards (SRC) in Paraná State, Brazil, to inform school communities and stimulate greater involvement in the school improvement process.
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    Time to tackle corruption in education

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    In some developing countries massive amounts of funds transferred from ministries of education to schools are leaked. Bribes and payoffs in teacher recruitment and promotion and selling of exam papers can bring the teaching profession into disrepute. Illegal payments for school entrance and other hidden costs help explain low enrolment and high drop-out rates.

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