Its practice is more questionable: it has often resembled an expensive rural welfare programme.

ECONOMIST: Politics in Brazil

The Report examines the multiple ethical implications of advances in scientific knowledge, medical practice and associated technologies, which have improved our ability to safeguard human welfare.

UNESCO: THEMES

The proposition, in exchange for allowing slot machines in perpetuity for any tribe that wants them, requires a portion of gaming money to be spread among non-gaming tribes (a practice already in place) and other sums to go to education, health and welfare.

ECONOMIST: A gambling referendum