Latin America and Caribbean
- Demographic transition and the regulatory shortcomings of Brazil’s social security
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Brazil’s social security and social assistance provisions are too expensive and becoming more so relative to the country’s age profile and per capita GDP. This paper concludes that Brazil’s social provisions must undergo deepregulatory changes if they are to meet the challenge posed by thecountry’s shifting demography, as population ageing is the single mostimportant factor affecting social security in Brazil.
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- Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales
- C. M. Stickler / Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2013
- Tropical rainforest regions have large hydropower generation potential that figures prominently in many nations’ energy growth strategies. This paper argues that feasibility studies of hydropower plants typically ignore the effec...
- Intercultural Health Policies in Latin America
- S. Ruiz Cervantes / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Historically, indigenous peoples’ access to health services in Latin America has been limited due to a variety of social, economic and cultural factors. The misunderstanding of indigenous peoples’ world view and their defi...
- The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World
- B. Bilbao-Osorio (ed); S. Dutta (ed); B. Lanvin (ed) / World Economic Forum, 2013
- The Networked Readiness Index presented in this report ranks 144 economies based on their capacity to exploit the opportunities offered by the digital age. This capacity is determined by the quality of the regulatory, business and inn...
- Inequality watch
- B. Thoresen / Norwegian People's Aid, 2012
- This report is a contribution to the development policy debate. It shows that it is a too narrow approach to limit the targets of development policy to growth or to lifting a population above an artificial poverty line. A clear priori...
- Analysis on the linkages between population dynamics, urban development and disaster risk reduction in Latin America
- International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012
- With both urban population and the frequency of disasters increasing in Latin America, it is necessary to adequately plan for sustainable growth that takes these changing dynamics into account. With this in mind, multiple agencies wit...
- Tenure of indigenous peoples territories and REDD+ as a forestry management incentive: the case of Mesoamerican countries
- The UN-REDD Programme and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, 2012
- Programmes to reduce emissions from deforestation and ecosystem degradation, including REDD+ and Payment for Environmental Services (PES), could represent an opportunity to strengthen processes of conservation, sustainable usage and p...
- In our image: Norway’s Role in the Global Hydropower Industry
- J. A. Holmquist 2012
- This report presents the scope of Norwegian state and public actors involved in hydropower internationally, including publicly-owned Statkraft and the state development finance institution Norfund. It presents cases and experiences fr...
- Making waves: stories of participatory communication for social change
- A. Gumucio 2013
- This paper by Alfonso Gumucio acts as a detailed introduction on communicatiuon for development and social change, and includes fifty case stories from Latin America, Asia and Africa.
- The Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI 2012)
- D. Te Lintelo; L. Haddad; R. Lakshman / Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index, 2013
- The 2012 HANCI report finds that low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and lower middle income Guatemala, are leading the charge against hunger and undernutrition, whilst economic powerhouses such as India and Nigeria are fa...
- Overview of development issues in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
- CTA Brussels (ed) / Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2012
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face a greater risk of marginalisation from the global economy than many other developing countries as a result of their small size, remoteness from large markets, and high economic vulnerab...
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