[PDF] Top 20 Second Report on Human Development in Central America and Panama

... social and political stakeholders that are working to address sustainable human development challenges in accordance with the circumstances of their ...Program in Costa Rica has ... See full document

... finance and tourism, among others) but overall it had a small impact in the national labor market ...(ILO), in 2009- 2011, Costa Rica’s performance in the labor market was above the regional ... See full document

... services and maintain a presence and full control in their ...equilibrium and restrict capacity to take on powerful actors in organized crime - a problem affecting all the ... See full document

... Northern America, the Caribbean, Asia excluding Japan and Oceania excluding Australia and New ...1 In contrast, the definitions used by the World Bank and the UN Development ... See full document

... The Report does not address all possible institu- tional problems in all possible ...focuses on sets of these institutions from many fields to show that the framework (inform, enforce, compete) ... See full document

... data on violence against women is that they are inaccurate, since one of the most notorious effects of such violence is to produce a reluctance on the part of women to report such crimes, and ... See full document

... beaches and rocky headlands to recreational development usually involves the destruction of the natural vegetation and often the filling of small, mangrove-bordered lagoons and tidal streams ... See full document

... fish and game resource management and harvest, cultural diversity, once accepted as a necessary aspect of sound conservation and development practices must be part of aH conservation ... See full document

... evolved in a standard pattern throughout the world and Central America has not been an ...urban development, have typically functioned as a reservoir of wood to serve society's ...made ... See full document

... level. In 2008 Costa Rica had the highest per capita social expen- diture (US$1,002), while in the three nations with the highest poverty rates the figure did not exceed ...spending in most ... See full document

... countries and the isthmus was the best since the 1960s and represented the highest aver- age rate for Central America over the long ...moderate and volatile increase: average regional ... See full document

... beneficial and have similar effects as those of long-term invest- ment, enriching human capital and having multiplying effects on the local economy (UNDP, 2009: ...79). On the contrary, ... See full document

... statistics on individual aid ...multilateral development banks, some UN agencies and other providers of development ...grant and loan commitments every year and is regularly ... See full document

... Finally and perhaps most importantly, the Payatas experience illustrates the positive power of people living in poverty who adopt approaches that go beyond a confrontational face-off and who use ... See full document

... Declaration on Human Rights ’ stipulates member states ’ commitment to upholding the fundamental rights of humankind, these are currently undermined by the economic and political dynamics of ... See full document

... ‘transit-oriented development’ and ‘transit villages’ pioneered in California ...of development utilize moderate- to high- density housing within easy walking distance of major transit ... See full document

... increase in the annual growth of a country’s GNP per capita will be associated with a reduction of about ...4.5% in the proportion of the population living below the national poverty ...rates in ... See full document

... listed in the Brazilian capital market, Pelucio-Grecco, Geron, Grecco and Lima (2014) direct their study during the periods of 2006-2011, using a great variety of models to test their hypothesis (use of the ... See full document

... strategic and long-term relation- ship between both organisations. IABS and itdUPM have been working together since 2013 in research projects and training ...implemented in the Alagoan ... See full document

... collaborations in Science and Technology (S&T) in the 1990s, personnel from the University of New Mexico (UNM) began a series of visits to countries in Latin ...Motorola and other ... See full document