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Consolidating Sustained Growth in Brazil
Publication: Working Paper -
Author: Luiz de Mello, Diego Moccero -
Publisher: OECD;
Brazil has made considerable progress in recent years towards consolidating macroeconomic stability, which is a key framework condition for sustained growth. Monetary policy continues to respond swiftly to changes in the inflation outlook, anchoring expectations. Fiscal policy has been guided by debt sustainability considerations, delivering primary budget surpluses that have often exceeded the end-year targets. [...]
Author: Luiz de Mello, Diego Moccero -
Publisher: OECD;
Brazil has made considerable progress in recent years towards consolidating macroeconomic stability, which is a key framework condition for sustained growth. Monetary policy continues to respond swiftly to changes in the inflation outlook, anchoring expectations. Fiscal policy has been guided by debt sustainability considerations, delivering primary budget surpluses that have often exceeded the end-year targets. [...]
A Matter of Survival: The North Korean Government’s Control of Food and the Risk of Hunger
Publication: Report
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
In the mid to late 1990s North Koreans experienced a famine that killed an estimated one million people, or about 5 percent of the population. Hundreds of thousands of others fled to China to find food for themselves and their families. Many who survived suffered long-lasting or permanent damage to their health. Although conditions in North Korea have improved since that time, the North Korean government seems today to be reverting to many of [...]
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
In the mid to late 1990s North Koreans experienced a famine that killed an estimated one million people, or about 5 percent of the population. Hundreds of thousands of others fled to China to find food for themselves and their families. Many who survived suffered long-lasting or permanent damage to their health. Although conditions in North Korea have improved since that time, the North Korean government seems today to be reverting to many of [...]
Ensuring a food secure future: ingredients for change
Publication: Briefing paper -
Publisher: PANOS Institute;
While hunger makes the international news during times of famine, chronic food shortages are a feature of everyday life for millions of people in Africa and Asia. It is estimated that, unless there is a major change in policy, 600 million people worldwide will regularly go hungry by 2015. Food insecurity is not just about a lack of food, but includes poor nutritional quality of available food and constant worry about getting food in [...]
Publisher: PANOS Institute;
While hunger makes the international news during times of famine, chronic food shortages are a feature of everyday life for millions of people in Africa and Asia. It is estimated that, unless there is a major change in policy, 600 million people worldwide will regularly go hungry by 2015. Food insecurity is not just about a lack of food, but includes poor nutritional quality of available food and constant worry about getting food in [...]
Beyond Hunger
Publication: Research Paper -
Publisher: CPAR - Canadian Physicians for Aid & Relief;
According to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) there are over 200 definitions of the term ‘food security'. These definitions share basic tenets: that food security entails access, by all people, at all times, to the safe and nutritious food required to lead healthy lives. It is generally recognized that people may be food insecure for a variety of reasons and for varying lengths of time. [...]
Publisher: CPAR - Canadian Physicians for Aid & Relief;
According to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) there are over 200 definitions of the term ‘food security'. These definitions share basic tenets: that food security entails access, by all people, at all times, to the safe and nutritious food required to lead healthy lives. It is generally recognized that people may be food insecure for a variety of reasons and for varying lengths of time. [...]
Remittances During Crises: A Case Study in Pakistan
Publication: Research Paper -
Author:Abid, Qaiyum, Kevin Savage -
Publisher: Overseas Development Institute;
International remittances have played a significant role in livelihoods in the wake of the earthquake that hit northern Pakistan in October 2005. A large number of people from the earthquake-affected areas of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Kashmir live abroad and, although remittance flows were severely disrupted by the earthquake, they recovered relatively quickly. The widespread [...]
Author:Abid, Qaiyum, Kevin Savage -
Publisher: Overseas Development Institute;
International remittances have played a significant role in livelihoods in the wake of the earthquake that hit northern Pakistan in October 2005. A large number of people from the earthquake-affected areas of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Kashmir live abroad and, although remittance flows were severely disrupted by the earthquake, they recovered relatively quickly. The widespread [...]
