the mit press poverty inequality and policy in latin america feb 2009

... income inequality in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa areamong the highest in the world, but the characteristics and sources of inequality differ distinctively. The Colonial Origins of Inequality ... 2006).Fifth, there is growing debate and awareness about the well-beingcosts of high inequality in Latin America. Given inequality aversion,for which there is convincing evidence from Latin America ... inequality and poverty in Latin America, as well as policy s scope in addressing this issue. In particular, the contributionsgreatly add to our understanding of the evolution and nature of in- equality...

the mit press environmental justice and sustainability in the former soviet union jun 2009

... assessment of the project documentation,’’ asspeciﬁed in the Land-Planning Code, and no other type. This seeminglyinnocuous change in effect eliminates the requirement for the OVOS orany other kind ... to its original form, and the parks in the Altai were reinstated.21Others have tried to protect land by declaring certain areas ‘‘sacredsites’’ (see CAFF 2004). At a seminar in the Khakass ... have limited awareness and accep-tance of the concept of sustainability among the general public.’’ In ‘‘Places and Identities on Sakhalin Island: Situating the EmergingMovements for ‘Sustainable...

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Consumer Protection and the Criminal Law Law, Theory, and Policy in the UK potx

... difﬁculties in obtaining and using information about products theyare considering purchasing. They may suffer from information asymme-try in that they know less than another party (generally the supplier) and ... economic and social per-spective. The author examines the rationales for protecting consumers, and considers the role that legal techniques play in fulﬁlling these. Hethen evaluates the interests ... business nor holdshimself out as doing so; and (b) the other party does make the contract in 3Iain Ramsay, Rationales for Intervention in the Consumer Marketplace (London, Ofﬁce ofFair Trading,...

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the mit press knowledge possibility and consciousness apr 2001

... systematically involved in pickingup and storing information from perception and discourse,processing information, imagining, remembering, planning,daydreaming, and every other activity that ... the two ways ofthinking involved. If the physicalist can explain the knowl-edge in the one case, and the possibility in the other, by ap-peal to two ways of thinking of a single state, he ought ... storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.This book was set in Palatino by Windfall Software using ZzTEX and wasprinted and bound in the United States of America. Library...

the mit press real natures and familiar objects apr 2004

... have.It is (in part) in the lacking of these further properties that the differing -in- natural-kind consists. So it is in the possess-ing of these further properties that Ks¢ belonging to their ownnatural ... noother kind. The properties which do the underlying may beplural in number. They may be, individually, fairly indis-tinctive and run-of -the- mill. All that is required is that in combination they ... examining, our conventions forcalling something the same kind again” must be seen, notas evidence for its being the same kind again, but as consti-tutive of its being the same kind again (Sidelle...

the mit press global justice and transnational politics apr 2002

... identiﬁcation of the agencies charged with meeting thesedemands are in uenced by the choice of the appropriate concep-tion of the original position and the corresponding characterizationof the domain of ... The domain of the exercise of fairness is allpeople everywhere taken together, and the device of the originalposition is applied to a hypothetical exercise in the selection ofrules and principles ... eco-nomic theory—because the gains in individual freedom that itpromises would not counterbalance the drastic increase in socialinequalities and the decrease in democratic control it would entail—and...

the mit press preference belief and similarity selected writings dec 2003

... include intensity, frequency,familiarity, good fo rm, and informational content. The manner in which the scale f and the parameters ðy ; a; bÞ depend on the context and the task are discussed in the following ... attributed the observed asymmetry to the special role of distinctprototypes (e.g., a perfect square or a pure red) in the processing of information. In the present theory, on the other hand, asymmetry ... of their common and distinctive features, thereby allowingfor a variety of similarity relations over the same domain. The major constructs of the present theory are the contrast rule for the...

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the mit press women art and technology oct 2003

... remain passive, either in experiencing and immersing ourselves in new-media artworks or in for-mulating answers and questions about the intersection of new media and gender at the turn of the ... redeﬁnes the interpretation of the ownership ofimages: “Creation is a process that begins with the initial instinct to expressoneself and ﬁnishes in the attainment of the end result. The need ... about theirprocesses and aiding their future work.Early in the project two goals were deﬁned: (1) to increase the numbersof women artists writing and publishing in the journal Leonardo, therebyensuring...

1st Meeting of Ministers of Health and Education to Stop HIV and STIs in Latin America and the Caribbean pptx

... Ministerial Declaration Preventing through education1st Meeting of Ministers of Health and Education to Stop HIV and STIs in Latin America and the CaribbeanPreventing through ... education1. Preamble Gathered in Mexico City, in the context of the XVII International AIDS Conference, with the objective of strengthening the response to the HIV epidemic in formal and non-formal ... settings, we, the Ministers of Health and Education of Latin America and the Caribbean:1.1 Afﬁrm our commitment to the right to the highest possible level of health, education, non-discrimination...

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