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Social Panorama of Latin America 2012
To cast new light on social inequality, the 2012 edition of Social Panorama of Latin America is devoted mainly to aspects of caregiving on which systematized information for the region has not been available hitherto: paid employment in care-related activities, household expenditure on care, and the situation and care needs of persons with disabilities. This edition aims, in fact, to generate k…
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- 9789211218244
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Social Panorama of Latin America 2011
For Social Panorama of Latin America, the main challenge is to foster a more in-depth examination of social gaps and the mechanisms that reproduce or decrease them. The previous edition of Social Panorama homed in on inequality gaps and their intergenerational reproduction and paid particular attention to the formative years of individuals, their transition to adult life and the role of social …
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- 9789210210874
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Social Panorama of Latin America 2010
In 2010 the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) proposed a comprehensive development strategy entitled Time for equality: closing gaps, opening trails (ECLAC, 2010). From a rights-based perspective, development is treated as an indivisible, rights-based process in which synergies are created between a macroeconomy that pushes back the frontiers of growth as an engine…
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- 9789211217544
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Erfgoed; De geschiedenis van een begrip
The word 'heritage' is nowadays mainly used in the term pair 'cultural heritage'.
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- 9789053569122
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- T 301 GRI e
Social Panorama of Latin America 2009
The 2009 edition of Social Panorama of Latin America links trends in poverty and income distribution with social protection systems, placing special emphasis on how these systems have responded to the social impacts of the current crisis and on medium- and long-term projections. It focuses in particular on the impact of public transfers, trends in social spending, the mechanisms by which social…
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- 9789211217292
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Equity, Growth, and Community; What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro…
MANUEL PASTOR is Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California,
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- 9780520960046
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- T 305.5 PAS e
Equality in the City; Imaginaries of the Smart Future
This collection critiques the rhetoric of ‘smart cities’.
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- 9781789384659
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- T 307.76 FLY e
Equality and Diversity; Value Incommensurability and the Politics of Recognition
This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, and applying them to policy and practice debates.
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- 9781847426079
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- T 305 SMI e
Social Panorama of Latin America 2007
Per capita GDP has grown more in 2003-2007 than at any other time since the 1970s. ECLAC projections indicate that this trend will continue in 2008, which will thus be the fifth year in a row in which per capita GDP has risen at over 3% per annum. This increase has made further progress in poverty reduction possible, together with a decline in unemployment. Some countries have seen improvements…
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- 9789211216547
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Equal Opportunities and Ethnic Inequality in European Labour Markets
The need to analyse labour market mechanisms in post-industrial Western societies is urgent.
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- 9789089641267
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- T 325.2 WRE e
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