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Subjective Measures of Well-being

Veenhoven, Ruut - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004

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Measuring the Quality of Life across Countries: A Sensitivity Analysis of Well-being Indices

Rahman, Tauhidur; Mittelhammer, Ron C.; Wandschneider, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005

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Significance of Public Space in the Fragmented City: Designing Strategies for Urban Opportunities in Informal Settlements of Buenos Aires City

Janches, Flavio - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

This article surveys the problem of urban marginalization by one of its more critical expressions in the contemporary city: the slums. The aim is to define an urban design strategy for the integration of those settlements as part of the city context, which enables to find solutions for the...

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A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life

Lora, Eduardo; Powell, Andrew - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

A growing number of cities around the world have established systems of monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective and subjective information and attempt to cover a wide variety of topics. This paper introduces a simple method that takes advantage of both types...

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Education policy, vocational training, and the youth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Oketch, Moses - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Technical, vocational education, and training has remained an explosive topic because it can create a divided society in terms of education and the benefits associated with it. Internationally, it has always been a complex and controversial topic compared

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The Political Participation of Africa.s Youth

Resnick, Danielle - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa. Today, as the region … faces a growing .youth bulge. that is disproportionately burdened by un- and underemployment, capturing the votes of this … generational identities within the region, very little is really known about the political participation of Africa.s youth. In …

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Cities of youth: Post-millennial cases of mobility and sociality

Hansen, Karen Tranberg - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Lusaka, Zambia, to analyse pathways for, and challenges to, greater social mobility for youth against the background of …

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The Impact of the 2007.08 Food Price Crisis in a Major Commodity Exporter: Food Prices, Inflation, and Inclusion in Brazil

Mueller, Bernardo; Mueller, Charles - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

Brazil in the past 2 …

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Industrial Policies in Latin America

Peres, Wilson - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

This chapter analyses the main features of industrial policies carried out in Latin America since 1990. It studies these policies during import substitution industrialization and how they changed after the market-oriented economic reforms. It presents the main national strategies, policy lines...

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Africa-Brazil co-operation in social protection: Drivers, lessons and shifts in the engagement of the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development

Leite, Iara Costa; Suyama, Bianca; Pomeroy, Melissa - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

The Brazilian Ministry of Social Development.s co-operation with sub-Saharan Africa has shifted from an initial engagement in cash transfers to a recent engagement in food and nutritional security. This paper aims at understanding the main drivers for suc

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