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Artículo de revista especializada, 2007
We review claims linking both payments for carbon and poverty to deforestation. We examine these effects empirically for Costa Rica during the late 20th century using an econometric approach that addresses the irreversibilities in...
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Producto informativo, 2007
Traditional bioenergy is the dominant source of energy for about half of the world’s
population and it is used mainly for cooking. This in itself makes access to bioenergy a
right to food issue....
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Artículo de revista especializada, 2007
Preferential trade agreements are thought of as an important instrument for integrating the developing (DCs) and least developed countries (LDCs) into the world trading system. The Everything But Arms initiative (EBA) of the European Union...
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Manual/directrices, 2007
Monitoring through the periodic collection, analysis and interpretation, and dissemination of relevant information is critical to know whether progress is being made and whether policies, programmes and other actions by government and other stakeholders adequately...
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Producto informativo, 2007
Until recently, human rights issues have been the domain of lawyers and human rights campaigners while resource access issues were tackled by technical interventions and political mobilization. Today human rights principles and language are being...
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Artículo de revista especializada, 2007
This report reviews gender issues in Liberia’s agriculture and rural sector with a special focus
on rural women and how to improve their participation and contribution to rural development. The report reviews women’s roles in...
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Artículo de revista especializada, 2007
This paper contributes to the understanding of the dynamics of developing country rural labour markets by re-evaluating the available evidence on the levels and composition of income sources adopted by rural households in order to...
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Artículo de revista especializada, 2007
The paper discusses the economic effects of misallocation of public expenditures in favor of private goods rather than public goods. It first lays out certain key hypotheses regarding the consequences of the apparent public sector...
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Artículo de revista especializada, 2007
This paper explores a territorial approach to rural development in Latin America. It first reviews evidence that progress in rural social development has not been accompanied by reductions in income poverty and inequality. It then...
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Lessons learned in Brazil
Manual/directrices, 2007
One-third of Brazil’s export earnings come from agriculture, yet in 2004, 72 million of its 185 million residents were affected by food insecurity (Institute of Geography and Statistics). Only when this situation became unacceptable to...
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