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  Implementing a New Indicator of Social Development in Mexico: Literate Life Expectancy (LLE) (Medina / IIASA)

  International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1999

  For scientists, measuring social development has been a long-lasting objective; for the public, it has been a partially-resolved demand. Social indicators have been used informally for a very long time, particularly in economics, to assess the state of the nation and progress towards national objectives.
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  Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study

  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 common methods to investigate the overall, world wide burden.
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  Civil society: IISD resource guide

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1998

  Bibilography of key paper resources concerning civil society and sustainable development accompanied by short abstracts. Also details of relevant WWW sites. Prepared by IISD Information Centre
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  Poverty and the ‘Population Problem’

  Global Reproductive Health Forum, 1996

  Addresses three aspects of poverty and the "population problem" from an economic perspective. First, the statistical basis for the oft-cited positive correlation between poverty and household size. Secondly, re-examines the conflicting economic and demographic interpretations of this correlation.
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  Gender disparity in South Asia : comparisons betwen and within countries

  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 more local explanations.
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  The Mechanics of Progress in Education: Evidence from Cross-Country Data

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Argues that, so long as educational coverage is not yet universal, a more efficient strategy for educational development is to emphasize continued expansion of coverage rather than a rapid reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio.
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  Costs of Adolescent Childbearing: A Review of Evidence from Chile, Barbados, Guatemala and Mexico

  1998

  The region is plagued by persistent poverty. Does early childbearing perpetuate it? What are the social and economic impacts of adolescent childbearing on mothers and children?
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  Fashion victims: The Asian garment industry and globalisation

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998

  Report looks at the impact of globalisation on the lives of garment workers in Asia. Urban Missionaries, a CAFOD partner in the Philippines, carried out research on the increasing use of temporary contracts in the garment industry. In Sri Lanka, People’s Forum for Development Alternatives (PEFDA) interviewed workers in the Kandy and Kurunegala areas.
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  The ecoregional factor: new perspectives on malnutrition and poverty (HCD Dissemination Note)

  HNPFLASH, 1995

  This exploratory research provides strong initial evidence of the linkages between the natural environment, socioeconomic factors and the incidence of malnutrition and poverty. Exploitation of these linkages has the potential to improve both targeting and interventions against malnutrition endemic in so many areas.
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  ILO Governing Body Document on Child Labour Committee on Employment and Social Policy (GB.264/ESP/1)

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999

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