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EQxIS Information System: Monitoring Millennium Development Goals when Data is Available

Velez, Carlos Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy …

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Remittances 2005: Transforming Labor Markets and Promoting Financial Democracy: Statistical Comparisons

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005

For generations, millions of migrant workers have been sending billions of dollars back to their home countries to support their families. Remittances are widely recognized as critical to the survival of millions of individual families, and the health of many national economies throughout Latin...

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Building Hybrid Value Chains TM

Budinich, Valeria - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

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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Incremental Construction: A Strategy to Facilitate Access to Housing

Greene, Margarita; Rojas, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

The enabling approach to housing markets promotes financing systems based on family savings, public subsidies and mortgage loans to unleash the potential of individuals and communities to produce and improve dwellings. However, the approach failed to benefit lower-income households, as they have...

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Sending Money Home: Worldwide Remittance Flows to Developing Countries

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …; … - 2007

Remittances, the portion of migrant workers' earnings sent back home to their families, have been a critical means of financial support for generations. But, for the most part, these flows have historically been -hidden in plain view-, often uncounted and even ignored. All that is now changing...

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What Challenges do Poverty Reduction Strategies Face?

Engel, Wanda - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy … Dialogue for the VI Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on December 9th and 10th, 2003. Why reduce poverty? Social, economic …, political and ethical questions. What is Poverty? Basic concepts: poverty, inequality, exclusion and vulnerability Who are the …

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Responsabilidade social da empresa: Um bom negócio para todos

Vives, Antonio; Peinado-Vara, Estrella - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

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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Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America: Problems and Opportunities

Johannsen, Julia; Tejerina, Luis; Glassman, Amanda - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

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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Poverty and the Labor Market in Venezuela: 1982-1995

Márquez, Gustavo; Álvarez, Carola - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996

analyze its impact on the evolution of poverty. This time period is one wherein Venezuela suffered from the consequences of … and inflation were highly volatile, real wages fell in a sustained way, and poverty increased dramatically. The authors …

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Trade Liberalization, Income Distribution and Poverty: The Poultry Production Case Study in Brazil

Filho, Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira; Bacchi, Miriam … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

liberalization in these markets for poverty alleviation. The main objective is to address whether and to which extent trade … liberalization in the sector could help to improve the poverty situation in Brazil. …

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