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IDB America November 2004 Claudia Neira	Leading the Way for Social Inclusion Three innovative nongovernmental organizations in Latin America win awards from an IDB-administered fund: Themis... Apoyo Para el Campesino-Indigena del Oriente Boliviano... Asociacion Capital Humano de Colombia...
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D-Lib March 2002 Daniel E. Atkins	Issues Regarding the Application of Information Technology in Indigenous Communities Only indigenous people can consider their cultural values and decide what is appropriately instantiated in digital media. Only they can determine the degree to which they will participate in information technologies...
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D-Lib March 2002 Karen Worcman	Digital Division is Cultural Exclusion. But Is Digital Inclusion Cultural Inclusion? This article examines some of issues surrounding digitization of cultural resources and calls attention to certain points that need to be considered when preparing collaborations that will result in projects that effectively serve as forms of social and digital inclusion...
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Finance & Development March 1, 2001 Danny M. Leipziger	The Unfinished Poverty Agenda: Why Latin America and the Caribbean Lag Behind Compared with East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean have made very little progress in reducing poverty rates since the 1980s, largely because of sluggish growth...
Finance & Development March 1, 2000 Nora Lustig & Omar Arias	Poverty Reduction Although Latin America and the Caribbean reduced the incidence of poverty during the 1990s, population increases and the greater income inequalities that had developed during the 1980s stymied the region's efforts to reduce the number of poor people. How can its policymakers fight poverty most effectively and better protect the poor during economic crises?
Finance & Development December 1, 2000 Deepa Narayan	Poverty Is Powerlessness and Voicelessness The Voices of the Poor study aimed to understand poverty from the perspective of poor people and to illuminate the human experience behind the poverty statistics.
IDB America October 2004 Enrique V. Iglesias	Solving the Competitiveness Conundrum The IDB is proud of the role it has played in promoting administrative, financial and judicial reform in its Latin American member countries, both through the Bank's lending programs and in the many innovative initiatives taken by its Multilateral Investment Fund.
Salon.com March 16, 2001 Daryl Lindsey	Counting the mix With a surprising number of African-Americans identifying themselves as multiracial, the Census Bureau has some colorful math to do.
IDB America May/Jun 2000 Peter Bate	A college for real life With an annual budget of merely $2 million, the University of the Autonomous Regions of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua is training potential leaders for one of the most disadvantaged regions in one of the most impoverished countries in Central America.
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IDB America February 2005	Latin American Art with Japanese Roots A new exhibit at the IDB celebrates the cultural contribution of Latin American artists of Japanese descent.
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BusinessWeek May 9, 2005 Geri Smith	Latin America: The Downside of People Power The military coup may be a thing of the past, but the popular coup is in vogue, as more Latin Americans are losing faith in the ballot box and taking to the streets.