- Are Poverty Reduction and Other 21st Century Social Goals Attainable?
- L. Demery; M. Walton / PovertyNet, World Bank, 1998
- Assesses empirically how attainable are two of the goals set by the OECD's Development Assistance Committee for the year 2015-halving the incidence of poverty and reducing child mortality by two-thirds. Finds that the evidence ...
- Husbands still have final say on family planning issues
- M. Francis-Chizororo; N. Wekwete; M. Matshaka / Family Health International, 1999
- Explores the roles of husbands and mothers-in-law in reproductive decision-making and women’s participation in development. It addresses the question of whether women and their families believe lower fertility should enable young...
- Research suggests that physical and sexual abuse are linked to a range of reproductive health issues. This report explores ways of ensuring that gender-based violence is addressed in health care.
- Panos Institute, London, 1998
- Gender violence causes more death and disability among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or even war. The World Health Organization believes that at least one in five women has been physically or sexually abu...
- Coping with uncertainty - Petty producers in postwar Mozambique
- J. Billetoft / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- Since the early 1990s, Mozambican society has undergone significant changes. The Peace Accord in 1992 enabled demobilisation of most former soldiers and repatriation of almost two million refugees from the neighbouring countries, and ...
- Danish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective
- S. Folke / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- The paper gives an overview of Denmark's official development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Povert...
- Swedish Development Cooperation with India - in a Poverty Reduction Perspective
- S. Folke / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- The paper gives an overview of Sweden's development cooperation with India, viewed from a poverty reduction perspective. It is one of the products of a research project, entitled 'Comparative Study of European Aid for Poverty Reductio...
- Indicators for Programs to Prevent Diarrheal Disease, Malaria, and Acute Respiratory Infections
- Environmental Health Project, 1998
- Air Pollution and Child Health: Priorities for Action
- D.B. Bendahmane / Environmental Health Project, 1996
- Impact of HIV and sexual health education on the sexual behaviour of young people: a review update
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1998
- To assess the effects of HIV/AIDS and sexual health education on young people’s sexual behaviour, a comprehensive literature review was commissioned by the Department of Policy, Strategy, and Research of UNAIDS, the Joint United ...
- Infant Mortality and Mother's Education in Ondo State, Nigeria
- J.O. Adetunji / Global Reproductive Health Forum, 1999
- A bivariate analysis of infant mortality in the 1986/87 Ondo State Demographic and Health Survey data indicates that children of secondary school graduates experienced a higher rate of infant mortality than children of less educated m...
- Guatemalan Survey of Family Health (EGSF)
- RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999
- The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health, known as EGSF from its name in Spanish, was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, p...
- Malaysian Family Life Surveys (MFLS)
- RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999
- The MFLS comprise a pair of surveys with partially overlapping samples, designed by RAND and administered in Peninsular Malaysia in 1976-77 (MFLS-1) and 1988-89 (MFLS-2). Fieldwork for MFLS-1 was carried out by Survey Research Malaysi...
- Indonesian Family Life Surveys (IFLS)
- RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999
- The Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) is a household and community-facility survey conducted in Indonesia in 1993 by Lembaga Demografi of the University of Indonesia, and RAND. The IFLS was conducted in 13 provinces, encompassing a...
- The UN's Role in Grant-financed Development: Is there a Funding Crisis?
- Overseas Development Institute, 1997
- This Briefing Paper describes the evolution of the UN's work in development, assesses its contribution to global assistance efforts, and explains how its main components have been financed in the past (and how financial support is cha...
- Ancestor Spirits and Land Reforms: Contradictory discourses and practices on rights on land in South India
- Y Uchiyamada / Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, 1999
- This paper is about Untouchable ancestors' strong emotional attachment to their ancestral land. Ancestrors of Untouchables remain in their ancestral land at the margin of the village, whereas ancestors of high castes leave for the abo...
- Non-communicable diseases are already public health challenges in all regions
- C.J.L. Murray; A.D. Lopez / The Lancet, 1997
- Reliable information on causes of death is essential to the development of national and international health policies for prevention and control of disease and injury. Medically certified information is available for less than 30 perc...
- Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study
- C.J.L. Murray; A.D. Lopez / ProCor, 1997
- Prevention and control of disease and injury require information about the leading medical causes of illness and exposures or risk factors. The assessment of the public-health importance of these has been hampered by the lack of commo...
- Human face or human facade: adjustment and the health of mothers and children
- A. Costello; F. Watson; D. Woodward / Centre for International Child Health, London, 1994
- Report considers the effects of strutucal adjustment programmes on the health sector . Includes an annotated bibliography
- Does better nutrition improve academic achievement? Yes
- World Bank Policy and Research Bulletin, 1997
- And it must start in infancy. Better-nourished children perform better in school than less well-nourished children, partly because they enter school earlier and have more time to learn and partly because they learn more productively
- 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.
