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Conceptualising Informality: Regulation and Enforcement

Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2009

The informality discourse is large and vibrant, and is expanding rapidly. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence … to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions leading to a plethora of alternative … article proposes that informality and formality should be seen in direct relation to economic activity in the presence of …

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Socioeconomic Factors and All Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality among Older People in Latin America, India, and China: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Ferri, Cleusa P; Acosta, Daisy - eSocialSciences - 2012

The vital status of 12,373 people aged 65 years and over was determined 3â€“5 years after baseline survey in sites in Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reported, standardized mortality ratios comparing mortality experience with that in the United...

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Book Review: Revisiting the Labour Movement

Blanchard, Peter - eSocialSciences - 2006

Review of Vincent C. Peloso(ed) Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America, Jaguar Books on Latin America Series. The book is obviously designed for those teaching courses on 20th century labour movements, providing both suggested readings and suggested films in the field,...

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Privatized Retirement And how the Current Crisis has Worsen Workerâ€™s Losses

Gripp, Camila - eSocialSciences - 2009

The debate around retrenchment of pension systems became really popular in the 1990â€™s after the pioneering experience of Chile in 1981.The disastrous outcomes of the Chilean reform were widely known by the 2000â€™s although no relevant steps backwards were taken. This paper analyses...

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Global Warming and Agriculture: New Country Estimates Show Developing Countries Face Declines in Agricultural Productivity

Cline, William R - eSocialSciences - 2009

There is a growing recognition that global warming is a problem, but little attention has been paid to the likely impact at the country level, especially in the developing world. The stakes for world agriculture, with special attention to China, India, Brazil, and the poor countries of the...

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PRC-Latin America Economic Cooperation: Going beyond Resource and Manufacturing Complementarity

Zhai, Fan; Kawai, Masahiro - eSocialSciences - 2009

Despite the rapid development of economic interaction between the Peopleâ€™s Republic of China (PRC) and Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, their trade and investment ties are still in their very early stages, and the complementarily of factor endowments dominates their bilateral...

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Proportion of Births Attended by a Skilled Health Worker 2008 Updates

eSocialSciences; World Health Organisation WHO - 2008

In our analysis, attempts have been made to quantify the proportion of births attended by health workers other than doctors, nurses and midwives in order to show the proportion of births conducted by such groups of providers. [Factsheet Department of Reproductive Health and Research].

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Policymaking under Globalization Pressures: Reforming Public Utilities in Latin America

Murillo, Maria Victoria - eSocialSciences - 2006

To analyse the role of partisan beliefs and interests, this paper focuses on two industriesâ€”telecoms and electricityâ€”which have been subject to strong pressures for policy diffusion and thereby are unlikely candidates for showing traces of partisanship. In the implementation of...

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World Development Report 2007 Development and the Next Generation

eSocialSciences; World Bank - 2008

The Report examines five pivotal phases of life that can help unleash the development of young peopleâ€™s potential with the right government policies: learning, working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship. Within each of these transitions, governments need not...

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Decline in Birth rate in Kerala

Nair, P R Gopinathan - eSocialSciences - 2010

The rapid decline in mortality rates, rendered possible by the spread of modern medicine and public health services, and the high and unchanging fertility rates are generally considered portents of imminent population explosions in many underdeveloped countries of Asia and Latin America. The...

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