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  Conditional cash transfers in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico: impacts on inequality

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007

  This working paper examines whether Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile.
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  Does foreign direct investment work for sustainable development? A case study of the Brazilian pulp and paper industry

  Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, 2007

  Foreign direct investment (FDI) by transnational corporations (TNCs) can potentially promote sustainable development by introducing new, cleaner technologies and building human capital. In practice, however, the effect of FDI on local firms, environments and communities varies.
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  Lessons from the field: the impact of civil society budget analysis and advocacy in six countries

  International Budget Partnership, 2007

  Can civil society improve the transparency, accountability and impact of public spending? While anecdotal information has been very encouraging, there is not yet sufficient information available to answer this central question.
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  Budget analysis and policy advocacy: the role of non-governmental public action

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  Civil society initiatives to improve budget transparency and influence government spending priorities are being introduced in developing countries. This IDS working paper reports on research carried out on six civil society budget groups around the world. The case studies are on a social movement in India, a research institution in Croatia and NGOs in Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Uganda.
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  Get what you want, give what you can: embedded public finance in Porto Alegre

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  How can governments raise taxes and improve public services for poorer groups, while at the same time securing the political support of those with wealth?In Porto Alegre, this working paper suggests, participatory budgeting has been key to the considerable successes of the government in reducing inequality while maintaining the support of the middle classes.
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  Measuring the impact of price changes on poverty

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2006

  Most poverty line calculations do not consider the impact that changes in relative prices can have on the poor. This paper offers a methodology that determines whether price changes benefit the poor proportionally more, or less, than the non-poor.
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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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  Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.
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  The FDI – employment link in a globalizing world: the case of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This study analyses the evolution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the increasing role of transnational companies (TNCs) in the domestic economies of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and will then in a second part outline the motivations and the different forms of FDI.
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  Reality check: the distributional impact of privatization in developing countries

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  This report looks at the privatisation of state-owned enterprises as a market reform. The volume brings together a comprehensive set of country studies on the effects of privatisation on people.

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