Mercosur: ambitious policies, poor practices

Mercosur: Ambitious Policies, Poor Practices

Mercosur has achieved important advances like the removal of intrabloc tariff and non-tariff barriers and the establishment of a common external tariff for most products. However, its ambitious plans to deepen the integration process comprising harmonisation of policies in areas like competition policy, government procurement, technical barriers and phytosanitary measures have not been implemen...

Poor Places and Policies for the Working Poor

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2 Ambitious Two - Dimensionalism

Are Pro-Growth Policies Pro-Poor?

The basis, and characterization, of pro-poor growth remain a source of debate in the current development literature. The paper sheds light on this debate with an example drawn from an analysis of household panel data from Bangladesh. The objective is to determine if observed rural income growth and the policies supporting this growth have been pro-poor — that is, whether policies and growth hav...

Introduction Digital Literacies—Concepts, Policies and Practices

Th is book supports an emerging trend toward emphasizing the plurality of digital literacy; recognizing the advantages of understanding digital literacy as digital literacies. In the book world this trend is still marginal. In December 2007, Allan Martin and Dan Madigan’s collection Digital Literacies for Learning (2006) was the only English-language book with “digital literacies” in the title ...