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    Welfare and growth effects of alternative fiscal rules for infrastructure investment in Brazil

    Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil, 2005
    The productive impact of infrastructure has been investigated in the last years by an increasing number of studies that confirm the hypothesis that infrastructure capital positively affects productivity and output. This article studies the case of Brazil, and evaluates the welfare and macroeconomic impact of government actions when its productive role is taken into account.
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    Is child labour harmful?: the impact of working as a child on adult earnings

    Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 2004
    Many studies that focus on child labour issues emphasise the negative consequences of child labour by showing the trade-off with human capital accumulation. However, there are reasons to expect positive pecuniary benefits to young labour such as vocational training, learning by doing, general workplace experience as well as the potential for making contacts.
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    Stealing the future: corruption in the classroom

    Transparency International, 2005
    This report presents ten studies carried out in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Georgia, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Sierra Leone and Zambia.
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    Case studies of good corporate governance practices

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005
    This report describes the experiences of eight Latin American firms leading reform initiatives and improvements in corporate governance practices in three different countries: Brazil (represented by CCR, CPFL, Natura, Net, Suzano and Ultrapar), Colombia (represented by Argos), and Peru (represented by Buenaventura).The publication shares practical solutions to corporate governance challenges wi
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    Has globalisation helped businesses in Malaysia and Brazil?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    As globalisation speeds up some countries and industries benefit from it but others do not. Does this globalisation process really help firms in developing countries to take up technological innovations? To what extent did businesses in countries, such as Malaysia and Brazil, benefit from this?
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    Learning process affects business growth in Latin America

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    A small Latin American enterprise can only increase its competitiveness in international markets through two options: locate within a geographical business ‘cluster’ or develop relationships with suppliers, distributors, buyers and marketers in a ‘global value chain’. These are generally defined as the two most effective strategies for sustainable growth.
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    Can leprosy be eliminated by a single global campaign?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    In 1991 the World Health Assembly set a target to eliminate leprosy by the year 2000. The disease, which still caries a stigma, damages the skin and nerve endings and leads to ulcers and disability. A major World Health Organisation campaign has provided antibiotics to treat the disease in a number of countries. However a number of new cases have appeared in previously low priority countries.
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    Paying its way: can tourism generate funds for protected areas?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Tourism is continuing to grow rapidly. Regions in developing countries with high levels of biodiversity are seeing the greatest growth. Protected areas are increasingly attractive to tourists and some conservation areas, traditionally supported by government funding, are raising significant income through tourism.
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    The GM decision-making process: who decides?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Genetically modified (GM) crops are legally grown in over 17 countries worldwide. Three of the world’s five largest GM producers – Argentina, China and Brazil – are developing countries (the other two are USA and Canada). How do governments in developing countries make decisions concerning GM crops and who has access to these decision-makers?
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    São Paulo advocates low income housing

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Brazil’s largest city is one of extremes, where wealthy suburbs are found alongside impoverished settlements. The municipal government that took office in 2001 has committed itself to improving the quantity and quality of housing for low-income groups and reversing the process by which they have been gradually pushed out to the city’s periphery.

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