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Expanding microfinance in Latin America’s rural areas
This brief begins by discussing microfinance’s impacts in rural areas, presenting evidence on rural poverty as well as on microfinance’s positive effects on consumption and investment in education.
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Latin America’s Rural Family Farmers: Evolutions in Access to Markets and Rural Income Structure
This Brief takes a closer look at these two key evolutions, assessing the impact on small farmers and some of the driving forces, in particular by analysing the liberalisation policies of the 1990s and 2000s that played a strong role in driving forward these changes.
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Latin American Innovations in Microfinance Technology
In Latin America, innovations in microfinance come not only from new technology, but by focusing on the people and processes making use of that technology, achieving important advances in scale and reach.
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Small-scale and Informal Mining: A Big Problem for Latin American States
Latin America has experienced substantial growth and transformation in small-scale mining, meaning it is often no longer small or artisanal, but rather characterised by high informality and an increasing potential to generate conflicts.
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Latin American Approaches to Extractive Industry Conflict
his Guide reviews the underlying causes and actors involved in extractive industries conflict, then analyses Latin American countries’ responses and policies in recent years.
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Indigenous People, Conflict and Extractive Industries: Latin American Approaches
Drawing on Latin American experiences, this Brief outlines three successively implemented policy packages that have strengthened indigenous peoples’ cultural, territorial and consultation rights, recognising them as key stak
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Mining in Latin America: Attracting Quantity and Quality in FDI
This brief provides an overview of the investment policies and incentive packages countries are using to attract responsible FDI and turn foreign investment into concrete and sustainable development.
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Managing Conflict Through Consultation: Latin America’s Experience
This Brief characterises and analyses the different types of local consultation seen in the region, focusing on the diverse actors that lead the processes and providing illustrative examples of each.
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Land Use Planning for Extractive Industries
This brief presents land use planning as a tool to mitigate these risks.
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Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT: Rethinking the Conservation vs. Extraction Dilemma
Ecuador’s innovative proposal for not developing its Yasuní-Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini (Yasuní-ITT) oil fields presents an alternative strategy for resolving the conservation versus extractive industry development dilemma.
