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Half of the moderately poor, and one third of the extremely poor now live in urban areas in Mexico. While cities offer a number of opportunities and specific challenges for the poor, low quality and high costs restrict real access to basic public services. Yet, the urban-rural distinctions need...
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This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil … school, education of the household head, sanitation, water and shelter. Over the study period, El Salvador, Brazil, Mexico … reduction in multidimensional poverty, while in urban Argentina the estimates did not change significantly. El Salvador, Brazil …
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This book talks about participation, from the first to the last page. And that is its strength, for participation is a road leading to democracy. The true participation it talks about does not rely on hours of compulsory labor or imposed levies; there is nothing forced about it. Rather, it is a...
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-- PART II. VOICES FROM THE FIELD -- 6. Bolivia: The People's Participation Law -- 7. Brazil: The Guarapiranga Program, São …
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Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism -- Disposable daughters and factory fathers -- Manufacturing bodies -- The dialectics of still life: murder, women, and disposability -- Maquiladora mestizas and a feminist border politics -- Crossing the factory frontier -- Paradoxes and...
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Klappentext: "The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910-1929" examines the global entanglement of the Mexican labor movement during the Mexican Revolution. It describes how global influences made their entry into labor culture through the cinema, the theater, and labor festivals...
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