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toward greater equity that will make it possible to reduce the high levels of poverty prevailing especially in rural areas. …
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This study provides detailed accounting of the current levels of social exclusion in education and factors contributing to them. It provides a quantitative and qualitative accounting and profiling of social exclusion in education in the region. Drawing from the micro-data of household surveys,...
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Workfare programs aim to reduce poverty by providing low-wage work to those who need it. They are often turned to in a …
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This document was presented at the "Opportunities for the Majority" Seminar in Jamaica, 2007. Based on the results of household surveys conducted in seven countries, the presentation focuses on the demands of the Majority in the Caribbean. This presentation features the latest findings on the...
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The Inter-American Development Bank sponsored a workshop in Terezopolis, Brazil, in August 1995 to review current thinking among analysts and activists involved with programs for youth in Brazil. The Workshop brought together IDB staff working in the areas of Early Child Care and Development...
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This paper discusses poverty and unemployment in Argentina, beginning with the turbulent years since 1980. Argentina … suffered a 25 percent reduction in per capita income, two bouts of hyperinflation and a sharp rise in poverty during the 1980s … of poverty, employment and social equity? These are the questions the authors address in this paper. The work is divided …
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Este trabalho tem por objetivo aplicar uma metodologia para a mensuração de efeitos distributivos relacionados à incidência de impostos indiretos sobre as despesas de consumo das famílias brasileiras. A metodologia consiste basicamente de duas etapas. Na primeira, as alíquotas efetivas dos...
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This presentation deals with the Full Economic Citizenship Initiative made by Ashoka, a global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. It presents the organization -men and women with system changing solutions for the world's most urgent social problems, it features a case in...
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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...
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A working paper summarizing the experiences of conditional cash transfer programs in Latin America, focusing on their challenges and options to improve them.
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