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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Gender in Brazil

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  Automation, women, and the future of work

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017

  Will women benefit from the rapid automation and digitisation that is set to change the world of work as we know it? How can we ensure that women’s economic interests are brought into focus, and that debates on the future of work are not about the changing relationship between man and machine, but between people and machine?
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  Social programmes and job promotion for the BRICS Youth

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2014

  Besides scaling up and improving the operationalisation of the initiatives designed to offer credit, work opportunities and vocational training to the youth, the BRICS nations, like all the nations of the globe, are faced with the pressing duty of finding means of including the youth productively in the labour market, in ways that genuinely represent the ambitions of this stage in the lifecycle
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  A quiet revolution

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013

  Carving out new pathways for women into jobs once considered to be 'men’s jobs', the State-run economic empowerment initiative, Chapeu de Palha Mulher, is transforming rural women’s lives in Brazil. For thousands of sugar cane and fruit farm workers, Chapeu de Palha Mulher offers a pathway of empowerment.
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  Empowering domestic work

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013

  Brazil has 9.1 million domestic workers. Ninety five percent of them are women, 60 percent are black. Many earn less than five dollars a day. Domestic workers began mobilizing 90 years ago, but it was not until the return to democracy in 1985 when trades unions were allowed again, that domestic workers turned their association into a union.
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  The Millennium Development Goals: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2005

  This paper looks at the differences across countries in Latin American and Caribbean region in terms of their chances of attaining the Goals and, wherever possible, the differences between trends in various segments of the population (classified by gender, ethnic group, age group, place of residence and income stratum) as a means of helping to pinpoint the areas in which efforts must be redoubled
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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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  The impact of cash transfers on child labor and school attendance in Brazil

  Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade, Brazil, 2003

  Brazil’s Bolsa Escola schemes involve paying cash grants to poor parents on the condition that their children attend school.