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  Protecting the poor through programmatic adjustment lending in Peru, Brazil and Colombia

  World Bank, 2003

  This briefing paper provides an overview of the main elements and achievements of the World Bank’s Programmatic Structural Adjustment Loans/Credits (PSAL/PSAC) in Peru, Brazil and Colombia.Introduced out of recognition of the inadequacy of project or sectoral adjustment loans in supporting long-term incremental social reform, the PSALs are designed to provide fast-disbursing, flexible, longer-t
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  UNAIDS 2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004

  This report warns that the number of people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has risen in every region of the world during 2003 and last year five million people became newly infected with HIV - more people than any previous year.The report highlights the latest global trends and, for the first time, features revised HIV prevalence rates for previous years, allowing for a better und
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  Public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology

  Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 2001

  This edition of the Biotechnology and Development Monitor surveys the perceptions and expectations that have developed in the public domain on agricultural gene technology in recent years. Authors from different parts of the world analyse the factors that have influenced public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology as applied to agriculture in their own countries over the last 25 years.
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  Accessing modern science: policy and institutional options for agricultural biotechnology in developing countries

  Eldis Document Store, 2001

  The paper highlights the complexity of the challenge in developing new forms of collaboration between a variety of actors in the biotechnology area in developing countries, including, national research systems with very diverse capacities in biotechnology, international research centres, local private R&D companies, global life science companies, and advanced research institutes in both industrial
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  Small arms control in Mercosur

  International Alert, 2003

  This report seeks to document mechanisms and institutions important to small arms control in the Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR) member countries of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, and the two associate member states of Bolivia and Chile.
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  Prevention of HIV infection among migrant population groups in northeast Brazil

  Scientific Electronic Library Online Brazil, 2004

  In the past 50 years, one of every three rural Brazilians has opted to migrate to urban areas. HIV infection is currently spreading among migrant communities, the poor, and women in the interior of Northeast Brazil. This article focuses on the different configurations, beliefs, representations, and forms of social organisation of these communities.
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  Non-contributory pensions – costly luxury or weapon against poverty?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Although the incidence of old age poverty in developing countries is high and set to increase further there is considerable resistance to establishing non-contributory pension programmes. It is often argued that they are unaffordable, that households can provide adequate support to older people and that there are many more pressing development challenges.
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  Creating a financial bridge to the private sector

  Global Philanthropy and Foundation Building, Synergos Institute, 2000

  This chapter from the book 'Foundation building sourcebook: a practitioners guide based on experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America' describes several approaches to building a financial bridge between the private sector and community development initiatives.
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  Distance learning for teacher training in Brazil

  International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004

  This article describes a distance learning in-service training programme developed to upgrade 27,000 teachers working throughout Brazil. It illustrates design and implementation structure of the programme, called Proformação, and explains why it has proven to be a successful model for the delivery of education at a distance in the Brazilian context.
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  ICTs for disadvantaged children and youths: lessons from Brazil and Ecuador

  World Bank, 2002

  This brief paper looks at some of the issues emerging in reaching children and youth in poor neighbourhoods with training in information and communication technologies (ICTs). These children and youth are unlikely to have access to computers at school or at home and their access to sources of information and knowledge of any kind is severely restricted.

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