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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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Libraries Powering Development

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Public and community libraries are sustainable local institutions that can stimulate grassroots development. The 21st century library is no longer just about books or solely a place for kids. Libraries around the world can and have become powerful partners to help deliver services that enable communities to achieve the MDGs. As this report will illustrate, at a time of constrained budgets, libraries offer a proven, existing and sustainable venue that delivers results.

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Sonia Hossain on April 09, 2012

Do remittances dampen the effect of natural disasters on output growth volatility in developing countries?

halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr –

This paper analyzes the impact of natural disasters on the output growth volatility. Using a large sample of developing countries and mobilizing a dynamic panel data framework, it uncovers a diminishing macroeconomic destabilizing consequence of natural disasters as remittance inflows rise. It appears that the effect of natural disasters disappears for a remittance ratio above 8% of GDP. However, remittances aggravate the destabilizing effects of natural disasters when they exceed 17% of GDP.

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Sonia Hossain on March 06, 2012

Drug Violence in Mexico

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In this report, the authors provide detailed analysis of the available empirical measures and patterns of drug related homicide, evaluate the underlying contributing factors, and the possible policy options to reduce the growing toll of the drug war in Mexico. In the process, the authors provide a comprehensive overview of the key trends and events in 2011 with respect to the activities of Mexico’s major criminal organizations.

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Sonia Hossain on April 09, 2012

Community managed forests and forest protected areas

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This paper assesses the role of protected and community managed forests for the long term maintenance of forest cover in the tropics. It was found that as a whole, community managed forests presented lower and less variable annual deforestation rates than protected forests. It is considered that a more resilient and robust forest conservation strategy should encompass a regional vision with different land use types in which social and economic needs of local inhabitants, as well as tenure more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 01, 2012

The Custodians of Biodiversity

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Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat. This book outlines the national and international policy processes that are currently underway to protect local genetic resources and related traditional knowledge and the challenges these initiatives have faced. In particular these themes are addressed within the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the International Treaty on Plant more...

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Sonia Hossain on November 30, 2011

Climate Change and Classic Maya Water Management

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The critical importance of water is undeniable. It is particularly vital in semitropical regions with noticeable wet and dry seasons, such as the southern Maya lowlands. Not enough rain results in decreasing water supply and quality, failed crops, and famine. Too much water results in flooding, destruction, poor water quality, and famine. In this paper, the authors show not only how Classic Maya (ca. A.D. 250–950) society dealt with the annual seasonal extremes, but also how kings and farmers more...

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Sonia Hossain on June 29, 2011

First Charter City in Honduras?

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Honduras is deliberating whether to pass legislation this month that would pave the way for the first “Charter City” to be created on Honduran soil by 2012.The radical brainchild of Stanford economist Paul Romer, the Charter Cities concept is based on the idea that good rules make good societies. Accordingly, poor countries should be able to galvanize their own development by building foreign-financed and foreign-run cities governed by a new, better set of rules. It has been lauded as a bold, more...

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Adit Rahman on January 26, 2011

Standards for Quality in Education

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Seven case studies provide information on educational standards in Afghanistan, Honduras, Kosovo, Mozambique, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Yemen. Information was provided by staff of education programmes in these countries. They have produced a wealth of lessons and experience. Most lessons refer to the development of standards, their application and acceptance.

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Farina Ahmed on May 02, 2011

The Coffee Crisis, Early Childhood Development, and Conditional Cash Transfers

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This paper examines the efficacy of three conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua in mitigating the potential negative effects of an income shock caused by falling prices of coffee, an important cash crop to many CCT participants. A theoretical household model is developed that demonstrates both the positive potential of CCTs to mitigate negative shocks effects on early childhood development and the negative potential of CCTs to exacerbate the impacts of a more...

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Farina Ahmed on July 04, 2011

“Stay with us”? The Impact of Emigration on Wages in Honduras

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This paper analyses the links between emigration and labor markets in Honduras by exploiting the variation in the labor supply over time and finds that a 10% increase in emigration yielded an increase in wages of around 10% – an elasticity much higher than any previous study on the topic. The conclusions suggest that emigration generates a redistribution of wealth from capital to labor in the country.

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Sonia Hossain on August 01, 2011

Feminised financial flows: how gender affects remittances in Honduran-US transnational families

genderanddevelopment.org –

This article focuses on Honduran immigrants in Alexandria, Virginia USA and their family members in Nacaome, Valle, Honduras. It traces the transfer of remittances from migrants to their families at home, in 20 transnational families. It focuses on six issues: gendered motives for migration, reproductive labour across borders, gender inequalities in the US labour market, intricate intra-familial power negotiations, the empowerment of women and new forms of dependence. It concludes by more...

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Farina Ahmed on June 12, 2011

Paul Romer: The world's first charter city?

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Back in 2009, Paul Romer unveiled the idea for a "charter city" -- a new kind of city with rules that favor democracy and trade. This year, at TED2011, he tells the story of how such a city might just happen in Honduras ... with a little help from his TEDTalk.

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Nadia Afrin on June 27, 2011

Women's rights, women's resistance: lessons from the Honduran women's collective

Over the past 30 years, hundreds of thousands of young women have spent their lives working day and night in the garment factories of Honduras. While jobs in the production plants of export processing zones, or maquila, have offered women the opportunity of work and economic independence, this has often come at a terrible cost. Low wages, forced overtime and inadequate health and safety provisions have taken their toll on the health of thousands of women, many of whom are now unable to work as more...

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Moushumi Biswas on March 08, 2012

Rapid detection of drug resistance and genetic characterisation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Honduras

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This thesis focuses on the evaluation of new diagnostic tools and the genetic characterization of TB in a low-middle income setting. The purpose of this work was to increase the knowledge about effectiveness of new laboratory assays for early detection of drug-resistant TB. In addition, this thesis aimed to increase our understanding of the M. tuberculosis biodiversity and transmission patterns in Honduras. The high level of genetic variability in the Honduran M. tuberculosis isolates suggests more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 27, 2011

Mapping microfinance opportunities for Photovoltaic (PV) technology in Honduras and Panama

gvepinternational.org –

This report aims to identify opportunities for expanding solar PV financing in Honduras and Panama. The two authors conducted phone interviews on July 2010 to identify microfinance institutions providing end-user/consumer credit in Honduras and Panama. Opportunities for developing solar PV financing are identified by analyzing competencies of the MFI market at a national level as well as by conducting interviews with MFIs in the market.

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D C on January 17, 2011

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