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People

Population	87.89 mln
Population growth	2%
Life expectancy	72 years
Net migration	-900,000

Economy

GDP	$144.06 bln
- per capita	$1,639
- growth rate	7%
FDI, net inflows	$2.93 bln

Infrastructure

Cellphone users	59%
Internet users	6%
High-tech exports	54%

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Governance of ecosystem services

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This study looks at governance of ecosystem services. It describes the existing legal and institutional frameworks, including the specific legal and policy instruments used to directly or indirectly govern the provision of ecosystem services, as they are found in four countries: Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador.

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Sonia Hossain on March 29, 2012

Ecuador’s vice-president reaffirms at OAS his country’s commitment to people with disabilities

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The Vice-President of the Republic of Ecuador, Lenín Moreno, recently presented to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) the measures adopted by his Government and his nation has developed for people with disabilities, one of the acquired commitments by his President, Rafael Correa, before assuming his position.In his presentation Vice President Moreno stressed the Ecuadorian Government’s promises that by the end of the year “no disabled people willing and able to more...

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D C on March 12, 2012

Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict

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Child Soldiers International (CSI) submits this report for consideration by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (the Committee) in advance of its examination in January 2012 of Thailand‟s initial report under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC). On the basis of the information gathered, this report summarizes CSI‟s concerns about Thailand‟s implementation of its obligations under OPAC.

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Sonia Hossain on February 23, 2012

Poverty alleviation and child labor

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Poor women with children in Ecuador were selected at random for a cash transfer equivalent to 7 percent of monthly expenditures. The transfer is greater than the increase in schooling costs at the end of primary school, but it is less than 20 percent of median child labor earnings in the labor market. Poor families with children in school at the time of the award use the extra income to postpone the child's entry into the labor force. Students in families induced to take-up the cash transfer by more...

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D C on November 29, 2011

Pro-poor benefit distribution in REDD+

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Ensuring the poor or the most vulnerable sections of society benefit from REDD+ is key mainly to build both national and international legitimacy, and foster successful delivery of conservation and social objectives. Equitable benefit sharing issues at a community or household level are overlooked in both academic and non-academic literature compared to distributional issues at international level. Therefore, this paper aims to look at some of the issues related to benefit distribution at more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 06, 2012

Ecohealth Research in Practice

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Featuring case studies from around the world, Ecohealth Research in Practice demonstrates innovative practices in agriculture, natural resource management, community building, and disease prevention, reflecting the state of the art in research, application, and policymaking in the field. The book demonstrates how ecohealth research works and how it has led to lasting changes for the betterment of peoples’ lives and the ecosystems that support them.

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Sonia Hossain on December 26, 2011

A Market Perspective on the European Sovereign Debt and Banking Crisis

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The paper first examines the probabilities of default implicit in observable market spreads and considers these calculations against sovereign debt dynamics. It then explores the implications of the interaction between bank losses and fiscal deficits on the one hand, and the feedback that any debt haircuts anticipated by markets could have on bank solvency. The study finds that market-implied sovereign default probabilities do in fact discriminate quite clearly between countries based on five more...

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Sonia Hossain on January 29, 2012

Green Economy: Developing Countries Success Stories

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A Green Economy can be defined as one that results in improved human wellbeing and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. The economic analysis in the Green Economy Report builds in part on the encouraging signs and results of many initiatives around the world. Eight of these examples, a limited selection from a growing range of experiences in different sectors, are summarized in this booklet, highlighting their economic, social and more...

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Sonia Hossain on June 23, 2011

Exporting Under Trade Policy Uncertainty

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Policy commitment and credibility are important for inducing agents to make costly, irreversible investments. Policy uncertainty can delay investment and reduce the response to policy change. The author provides theoretical and novel quantitative evidence for these effects by focusing on trade policy, a ubiquitous but often overlooked source of uncertainty, when a firm's cost of export market entry is sunk. Within a dynamic model of heterogeneous firms, the author show that trade policy more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 14, 2011

Subsidising education: are school vouchers the solution?

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Good quality education is out of reach for many poor people, due to its high costs. Governments try to make it more accessible by subsidizing it. School vouchers provide one means subsidize education. However, this evidence is limited to two cases in Latin America with a well developed institutional structure, Colombia and Chile. The relevance of voucher schemes for other developing countries, and how replicable they are to other contexts, is unclear. More evidence is needed from more countries more...

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Sonia Hossain on July 24, 2011

Social and Economic Impact of Disasters: Estimating the Threshold between Low and High Levels of Risk

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Catastrophes caused by natural hazards that hit “without warning” serve as grim reminders of the challenge that governments and civil society face in identifying and protecting the areas that are at risk of extreme events. This paper presents a methodology to estimate the threshold of social and economic impact of disasters that indicate events that were the manifestation of high levels of risk. It shows the result of the application of the methodology to Desinventar dataset, which covers 20 more...

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Sonia Hossain on August 09, 2011

Education policy needs to fill the gap in Ecuador's child labour laws

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In 2002, Human Rights Watch exposed the shocking extent of harmful child labour in Ecuador's banana industry. Its report revealed widescale abuse of children as young as eight working in hazardous environments, often exposed to violence, and paid a pittance by the international companies that relied on children's cheap labour to make hefty profits.The report and the resulting wave of media coverage had an almost immediate impact in Ecuador, leading the Ministry of Labour to declare the more...

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D C on May 29, 2011

Did Trade Openness Affect Income Distribution in Latin America?

This paper offers a medium-term perspective for analyzing the trade openness–inequality relationship in Latin America. Three contributions are presented. The first is that the authors assemble a database on income distribution indicators systematically estimated from household surveys with emphasis on within-country consistency of methodology, definitions, and coverage for the years 1980-2010. This 30-year database allows observing clearly that the increases in inequality throughout the 1980s more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 20, 2012

Poverty in Latin America database

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This database maintained by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) allows monitoring the three targets of the first Millennium Development Goal in LAC countries: reducing extreme poverty, achieving full employment and decent work, and reducing hunger and malnutrition. Data covers the 1989-2009 period.

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Simone Cecchini on April 20, 2011

What is needed to make REDD+ work on the ground?

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In order to provide preliminary insights into what will be needed to make REDD+ work on the ground, the authors analyzed the experiences of 12 pilot forest carbon initiatives in nine countries (five REDD+ pilot initiatives, and seven reforestation activities), in which Conservation International (CI) has been involved as a partner. The 12 initiatives analyzed include reforestation activities in Brazil, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Madagascar and the Philippines, and sitescale, pilot REDD+ more...

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Sonia Hossain on July 28, 2011

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