- UNDP Poverty report 1998: Overcoming Human Poverty [summary]
- Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 1998
- Report notes that around one third of people in developing countries continue to live in ‘income poverty’ — earning less than $1 per day. But it emphasizes the importance of looking beyond income to address human povert...
- Children and women of Nepal: a situation analysis
- NepalNet, 1996
- Sections from the report covering background environment, child survival initiatives and childcare policies.
- Children as Insurance
- C. Pörtner / Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
- Paper presents a dynamic model of fertility decisions in which children serve as an incomplete insurance good. The model incorporates uncertainty about future income and the survival of children as well as a discrete representation of...
- The New 'Knowers' of West Africa. Muslims, Education and Social Change. A commentated bibliography.
- Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
- Bibliography presents summaries of and comments on eight different texts, each providing important contributions to the subject of Muslims, education and social change in West Africa. The aim is to introduce the reader to a broad rang...
- Women's Voices, Women's Lives: The Impact Of Family Planning, A Synthesis of Findings from the Women's Studies Project
- Family Health International, 1998
- The studies examined how women's family planning experiences -- their contraceptive use and non-use, their pregnancies and childbearing, and their experiences with family planning and reproductive health programs -- affected other asp...
- Social Welfare in East Asia: Low Public Spending but Low Income Inequality?
- D. Jacobs / Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998
- “Light” welfare states were perceived by some as one source of East Asian economic dynamism. Paper examines the strengths of several East Asian social welfare systems and the challenges they face after the financial crisis. ...
- Why AIDS orphans are frequently left with limited or no resources
- HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998
- The socio-economic consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemic are felt in a growing number of countries and increasing mortality rates among adults are threatening economic and social well-being. This study looks at the status, need...
- Population and Sustainability: Understanding Population, Environment, and Development Linkages
- D.C. Clay; T. Reardon / Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998
- The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related. However, strategic planning and development program...
- Fighting an Uphill Battle: Population Pressure and Declining Land Productivity in Rwanda.
- D.C. Clay / Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1996
- Report draws attention to the structure of landholding as a set of mechanisms through which demographic changes in agrarian societies can alter the natural environment: demographically-induced change in the structure o...
- The User-Service Interface in Disability Programmes in Low Income Countries: the Negotiation of Values
- C. Leather / Centre for International Child Health, London, 1999
- Since the rise of the primary care movement in the 1970's the old model of institutional rehabilitation for disabled children has been replaced by a community-based approach. The practice of community-based approaches to disability ha...
- Adolescent girls and migration in the developing world
- Population Council, USA, 2013
- Migration is transforming our world: by the end of this decade, most developing countries will have more people living in cities than in rural areas. Most migrants are in their early to mid-20s. Substantial numbers of adolescent girls...
- World Report on Child Labour: Economic vulnerability, social protection and the fight against child labour
- International Labour Organization, 2013
- What can be done to ensure more – and faster – progress in tackling child labour? This report argues that child labour is driven in part by household vulnerabilities associated with poverty, risk and shocks, and that social ...
- Open access nutrition training module
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2013
- Chronic undernutrition affects nearly 200 million children in low and middle income countries, with vitamin and mineral deficiencies affecting many more, and there is strong evidence that undernutrition is associated with up to 35% of...
- Prioritising nutrition in order to achieve the MDGs in India
- V. Kumar / Young Lives, 2012
- Malnutrition causes long-term damage to children’s development, with huge social and economic costs. It affects not only children’s physical development but also their cognitive development, so reducing future productivity...
- Understanding childhood poverty as a multidimensional concept
- P. Dornan; J. Boyden 2011
- This paper discusses the methodology of Young Lives - a 15-year study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Vietnam and Peru, following the lives of 3,000 children in each country. The Young Lives programme is interested in c...
- What issues drive female child marriage and circumcision in Ethiopia?
- J. Boyden; A. Pankhurst; Y. Tafere / Young Lives, 2013
- Focusing on Ethiopia, this paper explores local perspectives on female child marriage and circumcision. Both practices are widespread in Ethiopia and reflect deep-rooted patriarchal and gerontocratic values regulating women’s re...
- Perinatal nutrition and immunity to infection
- K.D.J. Jones; J.A. Berkley; J.O. Warner / PubMed Central, 2010
- Epidemiological data provide strong evidence for a relationship between undernutrition and life-threatening infection in infants and children. However, the mechanisms that underlie this relationship are poorly understood. Through foet...
- Factors affecting prevalence of malnutrition among children under three years of age in Botswana
- S.E.O. Mahgoub; M. Nnyepi; T. Bandeke / African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2006
- This study was a cross-sectional descriptive survey conducted to evaluate the level of malnutrition and the impact of some socio-economic and demographic factors of households on the nutritional status of children under 3years of age ...
- Determinants of appropriate child health and nutrition practices among women in rural Gambia
- M. Mwangome; A. Prentice; E. Plugge / Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2010
- This study aimed at exploring the factors determining mothers’ choices of appropriate child health and nutrition practices in the Gambia. Eight focus-group discussions (FGDs) were held with 63 women whose children had been seen ...
- Prevalence and Trends of Stunting Among Pre-school Children, 1990-2020
- M. de Onis; M. Blossner; E. Borghi / World Health Organization, 2010
- The objective of this study was to quantify the prevalence and trends of stunting among children using the WHO growth standards. 576 nationally representative surveys were analysed. Linear mixed-effects modelling was used to estimate ...
- 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.
