... health inLatinAmericaand the Caribbean: challenges and opportunities] Mexico,Inter American Development Bank, Population Council, InstitutoNacional de Salud Publica, 2000, (in Spainsh, in press).3. ... (2).Growth inthe size and influence of civil society in Brazil since the 1980s has facilitated the positivechange. Increasingly democratic processes havelengthened the policy decision-making process, ... assessment of existing capacity for thesefunctions and to help in strengthening such capacitywhen necessary (7).Continue building on the important role ofNGOs. Changes in financing and decentralization...
... countries and nine from developing countries. The high-income country studies included those fromthe United States, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, ... both the full sample of firms andinthe sub-sample of innovative firms, and they rejected the hypothesis of subsidies crowding out private R&D spending. However, no significant increases in ... Programs in LatinAmericaand Caribbean Editors:Gladys Lopez AcevedoHong W. TanApril 2010Poverty and Gender UnitPoverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Latin Americaandthe Caribbean...
... the training of educational personnel, from teaching colleges to in- service training for existing teachers. By the year 2015, all teacher-training programs, under the jurisdiction of the Ministries ... Ministerial Declaration Preventing through education1st Meeting of Ministers of Health and Education to Stop HIV and STIs inLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean Preventing through ... settings, we, the Ministers of Health and Education of LatinAmericaandthe Caribbean: 1.1 Affirm our commitment to the right to the highest possible level of health, education, non-discrimination...
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... major indicator of employability. These differences are increasingly accountingfor the continuingracialdisparities inthe labourmarket,particularly inthe contextof the growing ... technology-relatedfields, andin business and commerce.Thesefiguresalsoshowashiftwithregardtorace.Thereisanincrease in Africansenrolling inthe fieldsofscience and business and commercerelativetothosewhoenrol inthe humanities and arts.However,itremainstobeseeniftheseenrolmentrateswilltranslateintosimilarproportions in graduationrates inthe comingyears.Table2:Enrolmentdistribution in threeDepartmentsofEducation’sfieldsofstudy,bypopulationgroup,2002Fieldofstudy ... labourmarketbasedonraceastheyprimarilyaddress the demand-sidesourcesofinequities. The continuingdisparitiespointtoaneedtolookinto the roleofsupplyfactors in the phenomenon.Differences in humancapitalacquiredaregainingprominence in accountingfor the racialdisparities inthe labourmarket.Field...
... remunerated, and more, by the increased sale of the public lands, the increase of population, andthe consequent increase of the revenue fromthe custom-house. Andthe rest are required by the great ... only on the business of the country, but upon the intelligence, knowledge, andthe exercise of the friendly and social feelings; andinthe opinion of the undersigned, should be reduced to the ... States and Great Britain as between Great Britain and Ireland, as the intercommunication of knowledge and kindly feelings must be the result, tending to the promotion of friendly intercourse, and...
... notunderstand the “rules of the game” the way the United States does.That is one interpretation of both the crude Chinese nuclear threatsover the Taiwan crisis and Chinese views of the U.S. bombing ... confronta-tion between the Soviet Union andthe United States was the centralreality in world politics. With the end of the Cold War andthe disso-lution of the Soviet Union, the world continues to evolve ... Quinlivan and Buchan (1995).17India and Pakistan are an obvious case in point. Their recent round of nuclear testsreduced the security of both nations, and their border clashes continue. The...
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... shows the sample means and measures of the variability of the nominal and real yields andthe BEIR. The drop inthe mean and variability of the BEIR inthe latter half of the sample coincides ... changes inthe BEIR. These proxies suggested that the premiums did change over the sample, but the timing of the changes did not coincide with swings inthe BEIR. We have argued, however, that the ... 6.1.1 The impact of mismatched cash flows andthe shape of the yield curve The different cash-flow structures of the RRB and nominal bond result inthe bonds having different durations and different...
... home.Although the rates of infant mortality and morbidity inthe Netherlands are among the lowest inthe world, the Netherlands remains an inconvenient exception in sociological and epidemiological ... in Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, andthe United Kingdom, the waymaternity services are paid for has a powerful in uence on practice. Interestingly,most of the changes in financing that in uenced ... training program and offer a rangeof services, including newborn care, help initiating and sustaining breastfeeding,health advice for mother and child, and help with housework (Van Teijlingen...
... threshold 5. The main point here is that,although there are reasons for treating the largest two observations as outliers, theyare not in fact very far fromthe straight line — in other words, the data ... tried, including varying the threshold and performing regression analysis on various covariates (including the size of the spill in barrels, the x coordinate of plot (c)), but none succeeded in explaining ... probability;2. Describing dependence among the extremes of different series, and using thisdescription inthe problem of managing a portfolio of investments; and 3. Modeling extremes inthe presence...
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