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- The development impact of remittances to Nicaragua
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Global workers' remittances have grown noticeably in recent years. Remittances are now a key macroeconomic factor in many developing countries, representing an increasingly large percentage of total monetary inflows. For many developing countries, remitta ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:51
- The wrong path: the World Bank's Country Assistance Strategy for Mexico
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The authors assess the 1995 CAS for Mexico, arguing that it fails to provide any coherent poverty-reduction strategies and maintains, incorrectly, that increased economic growth can alleviate poverty in and of itself. Also attacked is the way the CAS is d ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57
- Editorial 17(6)
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Only in English Author: Eade, Deborah Issue: V ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
- Never the twain shall meet? Women's organisations and trade unions in the maquila industry in Central America
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The garment and textile factories and assembly plants in the Central American free trade zones, known as the maquila industry, have given rise to new actors on the labour scene, as women's organisations and local monitoring groups now work alongside the t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
- The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons
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Author: Trawick, Paul B. Publisher: Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- Rethinking monitoring in a complex messy partnership in Brazil
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Since 1996, CTA-ZM, a local Brazilian NGO, has been developing better ways to understand its work on pro-poor institutional transformation in Minas Gerais. It operates within a ‘messy partnership’ which includes farmer trade unions, associat ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-09 12:55
- Lessons from urban risk assessments in Latin American and Caribbean cities
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This paper draws on the results from a recent World Bank-funded project designed to inform policy-making and climate change adaptation planning in small and medium-sized cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus was on floods and landslides, ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2014-08-29 13:40
- Development NGOs, local learning, and social capital: the experience of CARE Bolivia in Villa Serrano
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The evaluation of development NGOs has seldom considered their impact on social capital and local organisational learning. Deeply intertwined, both are key dimensions of the long-term impact of development interventions. Studies have highlighted the relat ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- An education programme for peasant women in Honduras
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This paper introduces the PAEM, a programme working with Christian women in the rural parishes of Santa Barbara, Colon, Comayagua, Intibuca, and Lempira, all departments of Honduras. PAEM has a number of overall aims, which include to bringing together th ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Hurricane Mitch and human rights
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When Hurricane Mitch hit South America in November 1998, it most harshly affected Honduras and Nicaragua, and most of those affected were already living in extreme poverty. The author highlights the connection between the extent of the damage from this `n ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
