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The Canadian Development Economics Study Group (CDESG) and IDRC are hosting a joint presentation on May 29, 2013, on the “The End of Inequality in Latin America?”Dr Leonardo Gasparini, director of the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social...
Social media is changing the nature of state-society relations in dramatic ways. This is particularly evident in Latin America where an emerging middle class with access to social media tools are redefining how democracy is conceptualized and...
On May 3, 2012, the Center for Studies and Health Research (CEIS) of the Fundación Santa Fé de Bogotá launched the Vector-borne Diseases (ETV as it is known in Spanish) Colombia Ecohealth program, "Reduction of morbidity and mortality of...
Latin American grantees of the Think Tank Initiative gathered March 26-28 in Asunción, Paraguay, for a workshop on resource mobilization. The goal of the workshop was to strengthen the think tanks’ ability to sustain their operations over the long...
The World Bank, IDRC, and the Inter-American Conference on Social Security organized a high-level technical consultation on January 19, 2012 in Mexico City. The goal: contribute to the World Development Report (WDR) 2013 on labour markets and...
Researchers from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Uruguay met in Mérida, Mexico at the end of August 2011 to continue their exchange on the eco-bio-social approach to disease prevention. This broad approach focuses on...
The following presentations reflect the views of the individual presenters and do not necessarily represent the views of IDRC. IDRC assumes no responsibility for presentations containing inaccurate or incomplete information. Contents of the...
In August 2011, the Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES) and Think Tank Initiative (TTI) grantee Grupo FARO co-hosted a workshop, "Using knowledge for more effective policy influence” in Lima, Peru. TTI supported the...
On October 17-18, 2010, 45 researchers and policymakers from 10 Latin American countries met in Guadalajara, Mexico to present results of research on the transmission of dengue, malaria, and Chagas disease and discus ecohealth research methods. This...
The Think Tank Initiative held the first meeting of its Latin American cohort in Buenos Aires on September 15-16. Twelve funded institutions came together to discuss issues, challenges and innovations on policy research in the region. The program...
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