Colombia has been implementing its disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration process since 2005. The goal: allow some 30,000 ex-combatants to regain a place in society by significantly reducing their prison sentences. Although the "Justice...
Poverty and social disadvantage provide fertile ground for the proliferation of informal occupations that yield barely subsistence-level incomes. In Cochabamba, Bolivia, garbage separation is a relatively old informal occupation, dating back 30 or...
The global financial crisis has affected different sectors and countries in the developing world in varied ways. Case-studies in Bolivia and South Africa, for example, show the complex impacts of the crisis on poverty. Reduced global demand led to...
Benin has moved toward the decentralization of state power and the active involvement of local communities. The community is now the institutional locus for the exercise of local democracy and governance, through the participation of its citizens...
THE EVIDENCE: In today’s globalized economy, Latin American countries must seek opportunities to expand exports wherever they can. Trade and macroeconomic policies influence production of goods and services, which in turn affects employment and...