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Emigrant's Remittances in Spain: an Opportunity for Action Abroad WP3-2005 - 25.1.2005 (Translation from Spanish) Iñigo Moré In Spain, remittances are the main expression of international solidarity in economic terms, and the same is true globally, where the worldwide flow of remittances more than doubles Official Aid to Development globally. Yet these flows are much more than family charity. In net terms, remittances are currently the main vehicle to transfer funds from rich to poor countries. In gross terms, they exceed development aid, foreign investment or tourist revenues in most developing countries
Poverty, Sustainable Development and the Environment WP38-2004 - 5.7.2004 José Antonio Alonso For Latin America, the year 2002 marked the end of a half-decade of negative economic results, characterised by a slowdown in growth, pressures from international financial and currency markets and domestic challenges stemming from political crises of governance in a number of the countries in the region. Accompanying these developments has been the popular disappointment with the scant progress achieved in social well-being during this period. The decade of the 1990s –which had been heralded from the start as the coming decade of recovery- turned out to be, by the turn of the century, in the words of the ECLAC, just another lost decade.
Emergent Diseases in a Small World: Lessons from the AIDS Pandemic WP33-2003 - 29.12.2003 Ricard V. Solé, Elisabetta Broglio and Rickard Sandell Over the past few decades, the concepts of ‘emergent diseases’ and ‘emergent viruses’ have attracted the attention of both scientists and politicians as a new threat to the economic and social stability of our world (Morse, 1993; Garrett, 1994). Not surprisingly, these two concepts are associated with other sources of environmental change, including the increasing evidence of an accelerated modification of our current climate and the degradation of the world’s ecosystems.
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