Starting in the late 1980s, many Latin American countries began social sector reforms to
alleviate poverty, reduce socioeconomic inequalities, improve health outcomes, and provide …

Maslow's needs theory proposes a hierarchy of needs and argues for their sequential
satisfaction. The theory has been very influential in development studies, in the …

Countries have pledged to stabilize global warming at a 1.5–2° C increase. Either target
requires reaching net zero emissions before the end of the century, which implies a major …

Este estudo apresenta um sumário das intervenções realizadas no âmbito do setor público
e os indicadores de resultado alcançados na saúde de mulheres e crianças, destacando-se …

The new edition of this established core textbook continues to give an insightful,
authoritative and accessible overview of competing theoretical positions on the sociological …

This study presents an overview of public sector interventions and progress made on the
women's and child health front in Brazil between 1990 and 2015. We analyzed indicators of …

Cash transfers (CTs), for all their evident success in relieving poverty, have been criticised
for failing to incorporate transformative elements into their programme design. In recent …

I have chosen to write this book in a way that is informed by critical theories of development
and feminist scholarship, but that places lived experience front and center. My professional …

This study investigates how the digital revolution, which is characterized by artificial
intelligence, big data, cloud computing and mobile robotics, will affect gender equality in …

We present original estimates of the quality of targeting of conditional cash transfer (CCT)
and non‐contributory pension (NCP) programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our …