A apresentação trata da organização "Balcão de Direitos", um projeto montado pela ONG Movimento Viva Rio a partir de 1997 para facilitar o acesso à Justiça a comunidades de baixa renda da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Apresentação durante o Fórum Interamericano sobre Segurança e...

This study attempts to quantify the impact of public interventions designed simultaneously to foster crime prevention and the formation of community-wide social capital. The relationship between social capital and violence has been rarely modeled in the literature and, when so, it has been found...

The report analyzes the impact of child abuse on children's educational outcomes and adult labor wages, using a human capital framework. It finds robust evidence of the impacts of child violence on school attendance and educational attainment in Colombia and on adult wages in Mexico City. The...

This collection of five case studies examines Latin American and the Caribbean experiences in regional cooperation and institutional capacity development across various sectors, including public debt management, watershed management, public health, citizen security and social security systems.

This third edition of Investing in Gender Equality presents IDB projects that exemplify good work in the integration of gender considerations in their design. The 18 projects included in this edition have been identified through a system that ranks projects according to how comprehensively...

Too Close to Home is a collection of essays by international authorities ranging from psychologists and doctors to economists and communication experts. Several authors analyze the economic and health costs imposed by domestic violence, documenting that domestic violence is both a serious public...

This working paper discusses "Safer Commune" - a neighbourhood crime prevention program in Chile that has come under criticism via evidence of rising crime rates and fear of crime in municipalities with the program. The author argues that this criticism is incorrect and shows empirical evidence...

Social investment funds, a widely used tool of development efforts, aim to support and strengthen local capacity for effective implementation of social and economic infrastructure projects through participatory, community-driven approaches. This working paper investigates whether these...

This brochure describes the economic ties between Japan and Latin America, placing the Japanese trust funds in the context of meeting challenges in the region. This document describes the Japanese trust funds and provides examples of how these funds have created opportunities for people to build...

The objective of this work is to present the main changes in education and health financing in Brazil during the 1995-2002 period, which brought important improvements in the recent performance and will continue for the future in these sectors, with utmost importance to the reduction of the...