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Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean : A Multi-level Approach
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ISBN: 9264174540 9264174532 Year: 2012 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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This report addresses multilevel governance challenges in water policy in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) and identifies good practices for co-ordinating water across ministries, between levels of government, and across local and regional actors.  Based on the OECD Multilevel Governance Framework and a survey on water governance, the report i) maps the allocation of roles and responsibilities in 13 LAC countries’ water policy at central government and sub-national level; ii) identifies the main coordination “gaps” in terms of territorial and institutional fragmentation, funding mismatch, information asymmetry, accountability, objectives and capacity, and iii) provides a range of mechanisms to improve water governance at all levels and foster capacity-building.

Coping with austerity: poverty and inequality in Latin America
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ISBN: 0815753179 0815753187 9780815753179 Year: 1995 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution

Poverty and inequality in Latin America : the impact of adjustment and recovery in the 1980s
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ISBN: 0801850649 Year: 1995 Publisher: Baltimore ; London Johns Hopkins University Press


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Poverty, inequality, and policy in Latin America
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ISBN: 9780262113243 0262113244 1282240684 9786612240683 0262255405 0262309157 9780262255400 9781282240681 6612240687 9780262309158 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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Here, experts examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in Latin America and policies to address them using new tools and data.


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Crafting policies to end poverty in Latin America : the quiet transformation
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ISBN: 1316383040 1316359042 1316359646 1316360245 1107461081 1316384845 1316360849 1316105520 1107089484 1316384241 9781107089488 1316379442 9781107461086 9781316105528 9781316384848 9781316384244 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This book provides a theory and evidence to explain the initial decision of governments to adopt a conditional cash transfer program (the most prominent type of anti-poverty program currently in operation in Latin America), and whether such programs are insulated from political manipulations or not. Ana Lorena De La O shows that whether presidents limit their own discretion or not has consequences for the survival of policies, their manipulation, and how effective they are in improving the lives of the poor. This book is the first of its kind to present evidence from all Latin American CCTs.


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Shared prosperity and poverty eradication in Latin America and the Caribbean
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ISBN: 1464803587 1464803579 Year: 2015 Publisher: Washington, DC : World Bank Group,

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Over the last decade Latin America and the Caribbean region has achieved important progress towards the World Bank Group's goals of eradicating extreme poverty and boosting income growth of the bottom 40 percent, propelled by remarkable economic growth and falling income inequality. Despite this impressive performance, social progress has not been uniform over this period, and certain countries, subregions and even socioeconomic groups participated less in the growth process. As of today, more than 75 million people still live in extreme poverty in the region (using 2.50/day/capita), half of t


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Understanding the poverty impact of the global financial crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean
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ISBN: 1464802416 1464802432 Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington, DC : World Bank,

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This study documents the effects of the 2008-09 global financial crisis on poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In doing so, it describes and decomposes the effects of the crisis on poverty using data from comparable household budget surveys for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay, and labor force surveys for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. The study also provides macro-micro modeling of crisis and no-crisis scenarios for Mexico and Brazil, as well as t


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Reducing poverty, protecting livelihoods, and building assets in a changing climate : social implications of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean
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ISBN: 0821382381 9786612725548 0821383787 1282725548 Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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Climate change is the defining development challenge of our time. More than a global environmental issue, climate change and variability threaten to reverse recent progress in poverty reduction and economic growth. Both now and over the long run, climate change and variability threatens human and social development by restricting the fulfillment of human potential and by disempowering people and communities in reducing their livelihoods options. Communities across Latin America and the Caribbean are already experiencing adverse consequences from climate change and variability. Precipitation ha

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Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Caribbean Area. --- Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Latin America. --- Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area. --- Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Latin America. --- Economic assistance. --- Human beings -- Effect of climate on. --- Poverty -- Caribbean Area. --- Poverty -- Latin America. --- Poverty --- Climatic changes --- Human beings --- Economic assistance --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Effect of climate on --- Climatic factors. --- Economic aid --- Foreign aid program --- Foreign assistance --- Grants-in-aid, International --- International economic assistance --- International grants-in-aid --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Destitution --- Environmental aspects --- Economic policy --- International economic relations --- Conditionality (International relations) --- Hominids --- Persons --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Acclimatization --- Medical climatology --- Climatic factors --- Effect of climate on. --- Global environmental change

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