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Major pharmaceutical companies such as Smith Kline Beecham, Merck, Glaxo and Lilly, and a score of smaller ones, are developing profitable business opportunities in the world's forest while preserving biodiversity and producing incentives for leaving the forests intact. This case study covers...
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American and the Post – Soviet Central Asian countries. The cases of Peru and Uzbekistan are chosen among these developing …
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Due to its dimensions and global scope the automotive industry is often a subject of debate when investment promotion policies, insertion strategies for productive chains, and mechanisms of technology transfer are being discussed. The automotive industry combines three important elements: (i) it...
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Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy and in global governance, but … achievement will likely remain large, so we provide a critique of Brazil’s strategy in terms of economic statecraft; reflect on … enhance Brazil’s leadership role at the regional and global levels. It would involve the Brazilian government and business …
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emerging markets such as Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Mexico, which are not only top recipients of foreign capital … been the eruption of world-class Latin multinationals (or multilatinas) from Mexico and Brazil, in particular, following …
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This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and … industries and firms. We also found that Brazil’s labour productivity growth lagged behind what was achieved in other …
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In this document takes place an analysis on the main rural development tendencies in the Central American and Andean countries. Also, it presents a synthesis of the main academic and political debates related to the policies and strategies of rural development impelled in these sub regions. The...
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This report presents initial findings from the third round of data collection by Young Lives in Peru, carried out from … (Round 3) – to highlight changes that have happened in the study communities over that time. In recent years Peru has had …’s needs, but still needs to be strengthened. Peru currently faces the enormous challenge of making its impressive economic …
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This is the third policy brief from Young Lives about Juntos, the conditional cash transfer programme in Peru which …
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Migration affects not only those who migrate, but may also have intergenerational effects on their children. Looking at those mothers with a history of internal migration who are part of the Young Lives project, and comparing them with suitable controls, we find that mothers’ migration has had...
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