This book presents empirical evidence on this contentious and highly politicized issue. Uniquely, it integrates qualitative and quantitative analyses of health care reforms at various stages of implem...
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These contributions, highlight the complexities of development and draw our attention to another issue; that of the poor themselves and how we, as the international development community, need to be m...
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This analysis discusses the existing options and offers a conceptually more refined alternative: the "family/couple/household" (FCH) unit, which assumes income pooling among family members, including ...
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"...The UNCTAD report argues the need for a "New Deal" for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). This should be based on the understanding that more aid is a precondition for effective aid, and that e...
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Democratization has expanded a great deal in most regions of the world. A large number of authoritarian regimes have lost power in competitive elections as citizens demand better forms of representati...
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The transition to a positive, active and developmentally oriented view of aging may well result from action by older people themselves, through the sheer force of their growing numbers and influence.
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FAO has made a report available on "Agriculture towards 2015/2030", which forecasts global trends in food, nutrition and agriculture over the next 30 years.
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The studies found that relatively little decision space was allowed to local authorities over key functions of health care systems. The studies also found that central authorities often reduce the dec...
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"...Few countries in Latin America have experienced in such a short period the shift from a socialist government and centrally planned economy to a liberal market economy as Nicaragua. The impact of s...
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Over the last 25 years a dramatic change in development policy has occurred in Latin America. Increasingly it has come to be accepted that the old model of state directed import-substituting industria...
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