Estes anais apresentam um resumo das sessões e discussões ocorridas durante a IV Conferência Interamericana sobre Responsabilidade Social da Empresa: Um Bom Negócio para Todos, realizada em Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, de 10 a 12 de dezembro de 2006. A maior parte das apresentações realizadas...

This paper presents a framework for discussing community consultation in the context of the Inter-American Development Bank's projects and offers suggestions on the opportunities, risks, costs, methods, and techniques of community consultation. After discussing some of the links between...

Improving remittance flows between Latin America and the US involving stronger ties with financial institutions and a favorable money transfer system would subsequently increase consumption, savings, and investment.

This work will try to measure the differentiated effect that the changes in the economic conditions have on the families in terms of labor participation of the spouses and other members of the family, as well as its effect on the scholar attendance of children and young people.

Our aim in this document is, exactly, to present this transition between the paradigms in the case of Brazil, and to develop a central point in this transition: the construction process of the Unique Register (RU) [Cadastro Único]* for the families placed under the poverty line.

Over the last decades, social policy has been conceived from a sectorial perspective. This means that social policy responds more to government's organizational activities than to people's necessities; as if social problems could be approached from a unilateral perspective; in the same way that...

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the IV Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 11th and 12th, 2002. ODEF initiated operating in 1985 and the credit program in 1989. Became self-sufficient in 1996. It...

This Technical Note was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the Caribbean Subregional Meeting celebrated on February 23rd and 24th, 2006 in Kingston, Jamaica. Effective Policies to Meet the MDG Agenda in the Caribbean

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the VII Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 11th and 12th, 2004. In the ¿90, there have been created more than 70 programs to fight the poverty, depending on 7...

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the IV Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 11th and 12th, 2002. Are there any good shorthand measures of violence? Homicides? Intra-family violence?