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Lessons Learned from Implementing the Sustainable Development Program in the State of Acre in Brazil

Dengel, Cristina; Horton, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

communities and small producers thus supporting efforts to reduce inequality and by actions for conservation and protection of the …

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Good Practices in Poverty Targeting in IDB Projects in 1997

Deutsch, Ruthanne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

Good practices in targeting, as highlighted here, with an additional effort to go beyond the letter of the law in the identification of project beneficiaries. Effective and efficient targeting mechanisms attempt to better link the project's specific purposes with its intended group of...

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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy

Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes … raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and …

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Poverty and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2001

This document surveys Bank lending operations designed to fight poverty and enhance social equity, with emphasis on recently approved projects with innovative components. It also surveys a broad range of poverty-related non-lending activities carried out by the Bank over the past two years. It...

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Social Exclusion in Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

Marshall, Jeffery H.; Calderón, Valentina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This study provides detailed accounting of the current levels of social exclusion in education and factors contributing to them. It provides a quantitative and qualitative accounting and profiling of social exclusion in education in the region. Drawing from the micro-data of household surveys,...

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Crises and the Poor: Socially Responsible Macroeconomics

Lustig, Nora - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not …

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How Early Childhood Interventions Can Reduce Inequality: An Overview of Recent Findings

Deutsch, Ruthanne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI) are ideally designed to achieve a series of mutually reinforcing objectives with the overarching goal of helping to improve equality of opportunity for children in poverty. In this discussion the authors analize programs targeted to overcome some or all of the...

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Development under Conditions of Inequality and Distrust: An Exploration of the Role of Social Capital and Social Cohesion in Latin America

Ferroni, Marco; Díaz, Mercedes Mateo; Payne, J. Mark - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

growth, investment and innovation capacity, governmental effectiveness, the quality of public policies, and the …

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Globalization, Inequality, and Poverty

Bardhan, Pranab - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

As is common in contentious public debates, different people mean different things by globalization.

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Inequality and Mexico's Labor Market after Trade Reform

Bouillon, César P. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

inequality experienced by Mexico after the 1985 trade and financial liberalization. To do so, the paper uses data from Mexican … counterfactual methodology to measure the effects on inequality of changes in labor force participation, unemployment, structure of …

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