- Child mortality and public spending on health : how much does money matter?
- Deon Filmer; Lant Pritchett / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Roughly 95 percent of cross-national variation in child or infant mortality can be explained by a country's per capita income, the distribution of income, the extent of women's education, the level of ethnic fragmentation, and the pre...
- Gender disparity in South Asia : comparisons betwen and within countries
- Deon Filmer; Elizabeth M. King; Lant Pritchett / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- While gender disparities in health and education outcomes are higher on average in South Asian than in other countries, the large within country differences in gender disparity, between Indian states or Pakistani provinces, demand mor...
- Child labor and schooling in Ghana
- Sudharshan Canagarajah; Harold Coulombe / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- To improve human capital and reduce the incidence of child labor in Ghana, the country's school systems should reduce families' schooling costs, adapt to the constraints on schooling in rural areas (where most children must work at le...
- Should core labor standards be imposed through international trade policy?
- Keith E. Maskus / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Weak provision of core labor standards in developing countries has complex effects on competitiveness and trade. The problem cannot be treated effectively by imposing trade sanctions, but should instead be approached through programs ...
- Child Labor in Cote d'Ivoire: Incidence and Determinants
- C. Grootaert / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- Most children in Côte d'Ivoire perform some kind of work. In rural areas, more than four of five children work, with only a third combining work with schooling. Child labor in Côte d'Ivoire increased in the 1980s because o...
- Tackling health transition in China
- Shaikh I. Hossain / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- After three decades of great improvements in China's health status, health gains have eroded recently. The three main causes of this have been changes in government financing of the health sector, the shift to a more market-oriented e...
- 'The rich are just like us only richer?: poverty functions or consumption functions?
- Simon Appleton / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
- The concept of a poverty function is introduced, modelling the shortfall of household consumption from the poverty line as a function of reduced form determinants such as human capital and land holdings. The model is estimated using a...
- In sickness and in health... : risk-sharing within households in rural Ethiopia
- Stefan Dercon; Pramila Krishnan / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
- To investigate risk-sharing within the household, we model nutritional status as a durable good and we look at the consequences of individual health shocks. For household allocation to be pareto-efficient, households should pool shock...
- Dualistic sector choice and female labour supply : evidence from formal and informal sectors in Cameroon
- Gauthier Lanot; Christophe Muller / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
- In developing countries, labour supply and activity choices are distorted by the existence of labour market imperfections restricting the entry in the activity sectors or rationing the worked hours. The presence of decreasing returns ...
- The Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997
- P. Krishnan; Tesfaye Gebre Selassie; S. Dercon / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
- Paper examines the effects of reform and structural adjustment on the urban labour market in Ethiopia using a combination of cross-section and panel data based on surveys conducted both pre- and post- reform. During this period Ethiop...
- Inter-temporal Changes in Welfare: Preliminary Results from Nine African Countries
- D. Stifel; D. Sahn; S. Younger / Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 1999
- Looks at changes in living standards over time using the comparable Demographic Health Surveys. Focuses on the evolution of child nutrition, mortality, education, and an index of household wealth constructed based on assets using fact...
- A Manual on School Sanitation and Hygiene
- IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2000
- Manual on school sanitation and hygiene eduation (SSH) deals with aspects needed to bring about changes in hygiene behaviour of students and, through these students, in the community at large. Manual aimed at: th...
- Participatory appraisal methods
- School Health, 1999
- Provides an approach to producing reports that will identify the priority health and nutrition problems of school age children quantify school participation (enrolment, absenteeism, repetition, and drop-out rat...
- Manual for policy and implementation
- J. Del Rosso / School Health, 1999
- Designed to assist those engaged in the process of creating new School Feeding Programmes (SFPs) or seeking to improve the effectiveness of on-going ones. It is based on a review of the SFP research and program literature from the las...
- Review of recent donor activities
- C. Dolan / School Health, 1998
- Findings suggest that: There is increasing donor interest in the health and nutrition of the school-aged child,adolescents and youth generally. This is most apparent in the UN system but also in some of the Bilateral Or...
- The gendered nature of sexual violence must be considered in long term prevention strategies
- P. Gordon; K. Crehan / Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
- UNAIDS estimates that by December 1997, 30.6 million people around the world had been infected with HIV, with more than 70% of these infections occurring through unprotected sexual intercourse.The proportion of these infections which ...
- ADF 2000 - AIDS: The Greatest Leadership Challenge
- The African Development Forum, 2000
- Web site for 2000 meeting of the African Development Forum. Includes online discussion forum.
- From knowledge to practice: STD control and HIV prevention
- K. Attawell; H. Grosskurth; L. Fransen / EU HIV/AIDS Programme in Developing Countries, 1999
- Describes the results and policy implications of two landmark community-based intervention trials in Mwanza and Rakai – village sites in Tanzania and Uganda – which studied the impact of different STD care strategies on HIV ...
- The Progress of Nations Report 2000
- The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 2000
- Concentrates on the effects of AIDS/HIV, especially on the young. Also discusses the power of immunization and sets out a new agenda for vaccines.
- Calculates a shortfall of up to US $80 billion per year between what is being spent and what should be spent to ensure universal access to basic social services
- S. Mehrotra; J. Vandemoortele; E. Delamonica / UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000
- The report draws on case studies from over 30 developing countries to highlight the human cost of this shortfall in terms of lives lost, children out of school, the millions of children under-nourished and the billions without safe wa...
- Global Unification the Gambia (GU)
- Global Unification The Gambia (GU) is a chapter of Global Unification International (GUI) in Australia. It is a youth-led research and development, non-political, non-religious, tax exempted charitable, association established in 2006 at the University of the Gambia. In partnership with relevant institutions, its mission is to provide education, skills and strengthen the capacity of yo...
- Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
- The Child Poverty Action Group was formed in 1994 out of deep concern for the rising level of poverty in New Zealand and its effects on children. CPAG works to produce evidence about the causes and effects of poverty on children and their families. It examines how Government policies affect children and families. CPAG publishes reports, makes submissions and conducts small-scale researc...
- Earth Child Institute (ECI)
- Earth Child Institute is committed to combating climate change, deforestation and water scarcity. By investing in hands-on environment and educational projects with and for children, both in and out of schools. Its goal is to engage with and support empowerment of the world’s 2.2 billion people under the age of 18 to plant trees, ensure access to safe water, sanitation, clean energy and nutr...
- Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE)
- The Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE) was founded in 2006 and has been working in the coastal region of Kenya. It was established to address democratic governance, socio?economic and youth concerns with a focus on the coast of Kenya.
- United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- Multidisciplinary research institute on development economics
- Countdown to 2015
- The Countdown to 2015 Initiative tracks coverage levels for health interventions proven to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality.It calls on governments and development partners to be accountable, identifies knowledge gaps and proposes new actions to reach Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. The Countdown Initiative is a supra-institu...
- UNICEF Bangladesh
- The UNICEF Bangladesh country office work in partnership with government ministries, non-government organisations, UN agencies and a wide range of donors in order to solve the problems facing children in Bangladesh. Specifically, UNICEF Bangladesh works on: education health and nutrition protection...
- Global Health Promotion
- Global Health Promotion, is the official publication of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). It is a multilingual journal, which publishes authoritative peer-reviewed articles and practical information for a world-wide audience of professionals interested in health promotion and health education. The title was formerly known as Promotion & Education.
- BASICS fragile and post-conflict states publications
- As part of a multi-donor exercise to deepen the international development community's understanding of health programming in post conflict and fragile environments, BASICS authored a series of papers to distill current thinking and share lessons learned. This website page provides access to the titles of and links to these papers.
- Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD)
- Promotes the collaboration of researchers in the field of population and household economics with a particular interest to the relationships between households, within households and between the family and the state by organising conferences, seminars and research on these themes. Acts as a network for the activities of five Italian universities.
