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  False starts: the exclusion of Romani children from primary education in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Amnesty International, 2006

  The low school attendance rates and poor achievement levels of Romani children in the former Yugoslavia are often explained through the use of negative stereotypes about the Roma’s "way of life" or attitude towards education.
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  Reducing urban violence in developing countries

  Brookings Institution, 2006

  This brief presents an integrated framework for understanding urban violence. It is informed by the findings from participatory urban appraisals of violence undertaken in 18 poor urban communities in Colombia and Guatemala.The paper argues that evidence from Latin America challenges the popular stereotype that poverty is the main cause of violence.
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  The impact of inequality in Latin America

  Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2004

  This paper argues that development policies in Latin America (and in other developing regions) should focus not only on eliminating poverty and deprivation but also on preventing and reducing economic, social and political inequalities.