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  Home-based workers: neglected by policy-makers and labour organisers?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Homeworkers are a flexible and cheap labour force and almost 80 percent of them are female. They are ‘invisible’ in the regular labour market and their interests and priorities are not at the forefront of political or labour organisations. It is difficult for them to demand higher wages, job security or improved working conditions.
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  Brazil's tax system: the dilemmas of policy reform

  Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2005

  This paper examines the problems of reform of Brazil's current tax system. In particular it focuses on the difficulties of reconciling global pressures with demands for tax reduction as well as the need to invest more public resources to tackle poverty, social and regional inequality.
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  Inequality in Latin America: processes and inputs

  Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2003

  This paper analyses the multidimensional aspects of inequality by discussing the concept of inequality along three types of processes:economic, social, and political, and three different dimensions: regional, rural/urban and across population groups.
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  Can measles be eradicated globally?

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004

  This report from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization outlines how a successful immunisation campaign against measles was implemented in the Americas in the late 1990s, and highlights the lessons which can be learned from the campaign for the global fight against measles.Measles causes 10 per cent of deaths among under-five year-olds annually.
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  Recent trends in the development agenda of Latin America: an analysis of conditional cash transfers

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper analyses the characteristics, design and implementation factors contributing to the popularity of conditional cash transfers (CCT) in Latin America. It is based on an analysis of the Mexican Program of Education, Health and Nutrition (Progresa) and the Brazilian Bolsa Escola.
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  Non-contributory pensions and poverty reduction in Brazil and South Africa

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005

  This paper considers the incidence of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among households with older people. Using comparable datasets the paper constructs conditional and unconditional estimates of the poverty reduction capacity of these programmes.
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  Mobilising against hunger and for life: an analysis of capacity and change in a Brazilian network

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  As part of a wider multi-country study, this paper examines a Brazilian social solidarity network, COEP – ( Comitê de Entidades no Combate à Fome e pela Vida = the Committee of Entities in the Struggle against Hunger and for a Full Life) - through the lens of organisational and social capacity and change.
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  Half a world: regional inequality in five great federations

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper explores some of the reasons why large groups of the population pull ahead, while equally large groups stay behind within the context of regional (spatial) inequality.
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  Closing gender gaps in education: lessons from good practice

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Progress towards the development target of achieving gender parity in education by 2015 may be inconsistent, but there are noteworthy successes. What do they teach us about addressing child labour and exploring interaction between early education and women’s empowerment?
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  Local development, productive networks and training: alternative approaches to training and work for young people

  Inter-American Research and Documentation Centre on Vocational Training (ILO), 2004

  This paper explores new local development approaches as opportunities for improvement in training and youth employment policies. The approaches described and the experiences outlined in the paper open up areas for reflection for the whole field of vocational training, particularly the idea of restoring training to an outstanding role in relation to economic and social development.

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