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Indigenous Peple, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America

Author:  Hall, Gillette and Harry Anthony Patrinos (eds.) Publisher:  Basingstok ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:21

Trees, People, and Power: Social Dimensions of Deforestation and Forest Protection in Central America

Author:  Utting, Peter Issue:  Volume 4, Number ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:34

Are healthier people happier? Evidence from Chile and Uruguay

Based on data from the Latinobarómetro, this study analyses data on happiness to establish the probability that an individual is happy. The focus is put on self-reported health status as a key aspect in increasing levels of happiness. The probabi ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2013-04-30 12:05

Does fair trade make a difference? The case of small coffee producers in Nicaragua

Fair trade represents an innovative approach to make the rules of global trade work for disadvantaged producers in the South and for sustainable development. But who are the real beneficiaries of fair trade? Has fair trade resulted in any discernible impr ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:50

Reconstruction in El Salvador: the social relations of community self-build

When the civil war in El Salvador ended in 1992, the Spanish government put forward money for a resettlement project (the ASPA project) which was designed and implemented by a Northern NGO for which the author worked as a construction adviser. The project ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57

Reflections on relationships: the nature of partnership according to five NGOs in southern Mexico

This article is based on interviews with several staff members of NGOs located in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, regarding partnerships between them and their funding sources, such as foundations or agencies of the North that do or support ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05

Balancing act: Business and household in a small Bolivian city

Sucre is a city of micro enterprises. The lines between business and household are often blurred: accounts are mixed, space is shared, and partners from outside the household are rare. On the surface, this kind of business organisation seems most inadequa ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09

Alfabetização Cultural: a luta íntima por uma nova humanidade

Author:  Baron, Dan Publisher:  São Paulo: Alfarrabio Editora (editora@alfarrabi ...

Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:48

Qualitative methods for assessing conditional cash-transfer programmes: the case of Panama

Governments in Latin America and elsewhere have implemented conditional cash-transfer programmes to improve standards of living in populations defined as vulnerable and excluded from the benefits of development, in order to improve access to education a ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-05 13:52

International NGOs and unions in the South: worlds apart or allies in the struggle?

In the early 1980s, support for trade unions was a significant component of Oxfam GB's programmes in various parts of the world, most notably Central America and South Africa. In Central America, this was motivated both because organised labour played an ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01