Wholistic and Ethical: Social Inclusion with Indigenous Peoples

Social Investment Funds and Indigenous Peoples

Social investment funds and indigenous peoples/Jonathan Renshaw. p. cm. (Sustainable Development Department. Best practices series; IND-108) Includes bibliographical references.

Social networks among Indigenous peoples in Mexico.

We examine the extent to which social networks among indigenous peoples in Mexico have a significant effect on a variety of human capital investment and economic activities, such as school attendance and work among teenage boys and girls, and migration, welfare participation, employment status, occupation, and sector of employment among adult males and females. Using data from the 10 percent po...

Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity*

Indigenous people number over 300 million. They are inhabitants of practically each main biome of the earth and especially of the least disturbed terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world. Based on an exhaustive review of recently published data, this chapter stresses the strategic importance of indigenous peoples in the maintenance and conservation of world's biodiversity. Four main link...

Drug Policy and Indigenous Peoples

This paper identifies the principal concerns of indigenous peoples with regard to current international treaties on certain psychoactive substances and policies to control and eradicate their production, trafficking, and sale. Indigenous peoples have a specific interest in the issue since their traditional lands have become integrated over time into the large-scale production of coca, opium pop...

Injury prevention and indigenous peoples.