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- Eficiência educacional no Caribe: uma análise comparativa
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Com uma população crescendo rapidamente e recursos limitados, a accountability tem assumido uma importância crescente, especialmente na área de gestão pública. Para avaliar a efetividade dos gastos públicos em educação no Caribe, este artigo compara o des ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Adjusting health care: the case of Nicaragua
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In 1978 at Alma Ata, the date was set for achieving `Health for All by the Year 2000'. Achieving this seems more remote than it did then, due in part to Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs), the author argues. In Nicaragua, as elsewhere, structural adj ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Capital social, ONGs e desenvolvimento: um estudo de caso guatemalteco
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Pesquisadores sociais continuam a identificar fatores importantes que promovam ou impeçam o desenvolvimento do capital social. Esse artigo destaca alguns desses fatores, baseado em uma investigação de um assentamento urbano de baixa renda na Guatemala. At ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- Junto con los niños: crianças de rua no México
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Uma notável ausência no plano de ação de dez pontos lançado durante o World Summit for Children de 1990 foi a questão das crianças de rua. Porém, essas crianças constituem uma cena comum nas cidades dos países em desenvolvimento, vivendo sob as mais extre ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57
- ONGs de desenvolvimento, aprendizado local e capital social: a experiência da CARE Bolívia em Villa Serrano
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As avaliações das ONGs de desenvolvimento raramente consideram seu impacto sobre o capital social e aprendizado organizacional local. Profundamente vinculados, ambos são dimensões-chave do impacto de longo prazo das intervenções de desenvolvimento. Estudo ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- Basic learning needs of young people and adults in Latin America
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The author provides a summary of important lessons learned from adult educational activities and research in Latin America. Basic learning skills are defined as the skills needed in order to provide for ones basic needs, in turn based on the current under ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57
- A meeting about women and reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean
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The author reports on the Latin America and Caribbean Women and Health Network of Isis International's working meeting in October 1991, held in Santiago, Chile. The meeting produced guidelines for the women's health movement on abortion, AIDS, teenage pre ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Letter from Honduras, 5 November 1998
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The author wrote this open letter to her friends in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, from the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa. She describes the devastation, how nearby countries have sent assistance, and her fears for the future. ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- A peasant farmers' literacy programme
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Literacy gives people a framework for critical thinking and informed action. A number of peasant farmers' organisations have developed in the wake of economic restructuring in Honduras, Central America. The authors describe and assess the Literacy Program ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Endangering women's health for profit: health and safety in Mexico's maquilodoras
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Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was agreed, thousands of maquiladoras (assembly plants) have sprung up along the Mexican side of the Mexico/US border. Around a million workers are subject to violations of their human, labour, and hea ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
