National Biofuels Program. This program seeks to foster biofuels production among peasant farmers in Brazil's semi arid regions …

In this paper, we aim to assess the relationship between water and sanitation coverage and saved infant lives. Our …

mutations in space and time, which impact on the degree of satisfaction of water needs in the world, and which call for a new … analysis of the water issue. This new perspective, in this context of increased uncertainties, means that this has to be put … into question. It involves, first, to have understood and assimilated the crucial role played by water in its natural …

This paper is based on fieldwork on the small-scale water providers in the peri-urban areas of Mumbai. It tries to … explain why small-scale water providers have appeared there, what type of service they provide and why they have succeeded …, where the municipalities have failed. The objective is to examine to what extent small-scale water providers activities are …

come from the water sector. …

Since the mid-twentieth century, the national objective of India and Brazil has been to develop industrial capabilities …. However, over fifty years, India has had much more success in building indigenous capabilities in pharmaceuticals than Brazil …

environment and Brazil as a proxy for a less developed capital market environment …