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Desplazamiento forzado interno en Chile (1973-1990): Consecuencias económicas y sociales de una invisibilidad histórica
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Desplazamiento forzado interno en Chile (1973-1990): Consecuencias económicas y sociales de una invisibilidad histórica Smart, Sebastian [1] ; Fernández, Karinna [2] [1] Anglia Ruskin University. East Rd, Cambridge CB1 1PT, United Kingdom. [2] Acción Cívica contra la Corrupción y la Captura Estatal. Localización: Revista austral de ciencias sociales, ISSN 0717-3202, Nº. Extra 0, 2025, 292 págs.
Landmark ruling in favour of victims of the Pinochet dictatorship
San José, 26 September 2024. In a landmark ruling, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled against the State of Chile in the case of Vega González et al. vs. Chile. The ruling refers to 14 criminal proceedings concerning executions and forced disappearances, and crimes against humanity perpetrated during the Chilean dictatorship.
Social Programs that Work
What would you nominate as an effective government program? Enter our contest! Winner to receive a copy of Ron Haskins’ new book, Show Me the Evidence. Enter your nominee in the blog comments below. As I argue in my new book, Show Me the Evidence (co-authored with Greg Margolis), the last six years have seen the most impressive expansion of evidence-based policy in the history of federal social programs.
Reclaiming the American Dream
Knocking down barriers to the American Dream is the best thing we can do to build a stronger country and a more just society. Doing it requires a dedicated national effort and, as Ben shows, it can be led from the ground up.—Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg L.P. and former mayor of New York City Ben Hecht's captivating book clearly lays out a series of powerful and achievable cures for our nation's ills.
Do Aspirations and Well-Being Matter to Future Outcomes? Lessons from the Young Lives Survey in Peru | Brookings Institution
The linkages between parent’s circumstances, well-being, and aspirations and their children’s outcomes is a fundamental question for social scientists and policymakers in countries at all levels of development. Understanding these linkages, though, requires novel approaches and methods.
Feeding America’s Children: Food Insecurity and Poverty | Brookings Institution
In 2012, over one in five U.S. children lived in households that were food insecure, defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as “a household-level economic and social condition of limited access to food.” The definition is derived from a series of 18 questions in the Core Food Security Module that ask whether the household faced difficulties feeding adults and children over the past year because of lack of money.
Twelve facts about food insecurity and SNAP
Read the full introduction » To be sure, the phenomenon of food insecurity in the United States is not equivalent to the severe malnutrition observed in some developing countries. Nonetheless, it has far-reaching impacts on the health and well-being of an unacceptably large number of Americans adults and children. The common-sense notion that lack of access to food is harmful has been established by rigorous research.
Jobs, wives, kids: Three reasons men need ‘Men’s Lib’
The world has changed, and women have changed. But men have not: or at least, not enough. That’s the argument Belle Sawhill and I made in the New York Times yesterday in a piece headlined ‘Men’s Lib!’ Here’s the short version: a combination of economic and social transformations (feminism and de-industrialization) have rendered the old model of masculinity obsolete. Women have learned to become more like men. Now men need to learn to become more like women. They must adapt or be left behind.
Evidence speaks loudly at Results First | Brookings Institution
The principles on which the evidence-based movement operates are straightforward: fund programs with the best evidence of success, lavish attention on program implementation, evaluate outcomes, and change or replace programs if the evidence shows they don’t produce impacts. The attractiveness of these principles to analysts, policymakers, and program funders has been the basis of the emergence of a host of projects and activities devoted to implementing them.
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