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- Are healthier people happier? Evidence from Chile and Uruguay
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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
- Banking on the poor: Peru's small- and micro-enterprise sector
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Sixty per cent of Peru's urban workforce is employed within the small and micro enterprises (SMEs) which account for 95 per cent of all business in the country's manufacturing, commercial, and service sectors. But in spite of credit needs of some US$ 1,25 ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57
- Empowering families as an alternative to foster care for street children in Brazil
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Although the emphasis in current thinking about work with street children has changed from aid-dependency towards youth protagonism, many organisations ignore the role of the children’s families in their interventions. In so doing, they reproduce obsolete ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Sustainability is not about money!: the case of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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With specific reference to the BCCI, the author argues that equating sustainability with financial self-sufficiency can lead development organisations to sacrifice or compromise their development work in order to generate revenue. The BCCI was funded by U ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57
- Private-public partnership, the compact city, and social housing: best practice for whom?
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The Casa Propia programme of the Buenos Aires City Government is an innovative case of public-private financing of social housing. It aims to encourage investors to build housing on private land for sale to low-income buyers receiving `soft' credits from ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Participatory methodologies and product development process: the experience of Mixtec craftswomen in Mexico
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This work presents a product development methodology for use with indigenous rural workers. It is based on the revival of cultural and social values, with a focus on the conservation of natural resources. Illustrated by the case of Mixtec craftswomen in M ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- Alternative financial institutions? Sustainability, development, social reproduction, and gender analysis
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Many NGO financial institutions and co-operatives are, arguably, incorporating the rules and norms of banking which, as `alternative' institutions, they sought to avoid. Here, the author uses CARUNA (the National Savings and Credit Co-operative `Caja Rura ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Participatory design of agroforestry systems: developing farmer participatory research methods in Mexico
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Participatory research that combines the knowledge of farmers and researchers promotes the development of a variety of agroforestry options that may meet the various needs of different farmers, and thus exploits one of the greatest strengths of agroforest ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Operationalising participatory research and farmer-to-farmer extension: the Kamayoq in Peru
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While rural poverty is endemic in the Andean region, structural adjustment programmes have led to a dismemberment of agricultural research and extension services so that they are unable to serve the needs of smallholder farmers. The NGO Practical Action h ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- Did the project fail? A community perspective on a participatory primary health care project in Ecuador
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This article examines a UNICEF/Ministry of Health primary health care programme in Ecuador from a community perspective. It contributes to the debate concerning the way in which the relative `success' or `failure' of participatory projects is measured. It ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
