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Global aging preparedness index
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2011The Global Aging Preparedness Index (or GAP Index) aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of the progress that countries are making in preparing for global ageing, and particularly the “old-age dependency” dimension of the challenge.DocumentMaternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital
The Lancet, 2008This paper reviews the associations between maternal and child undernutrition with human capital and risk of adult diseases in low-income and middle-income countries.DocumentCash transfers and child labour: an intriguing relationship
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes provide cash to poor households. In return, the households are expected to meet the conditionalities attached to schooling, among others. Several evaluations have found positive impacts on primary school attendance. This one page article considers how CCT programmes have impacted on Child Labour.DocumentCultures of participation: young people’s engagement in the public sphere in Brazil
LSE Research Online, 2008Recently there has been increased enthusiasm for the participation of children and young people in various sectors of society. This has resulted in an emerging critique of the use and abuse of terms such as ‘participation’ and ‘empowerment’ particularly as found within the international development sector.DocumentUncertainty, education, and the school-to-work transition: theory and evidence from Brazil
Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2008This paper develops a model of investment in education and school-to-work transition under uncertainty, using Brazil as a case study. The main predictions of the model are confirmed by the empirical evidence on young individuals in living Brazil.DocumentYouth risk-taking behavior in Brazil: drug use and teenage pregnancy
Social Development, World Bank, 2008Youth risk-taking behaviour - such as drug use, engagement in violence, school dropout, and teenage pregnancy - is known to have far-reaching implications on health, education, employment prospects, and income, which extend into adulthood.DocumentMother-to-child transmission of HIV: risk factors and missed opportunities for prevention among pregnant women attending health services in Goiânia, Goiás State, Brazil
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2007Vertical transmission or mother-to-child transmission, is the main source of the HIV infection in children.DocumentAdolescents and civil engagement: social engagement and young people
Child Rights Information Network, 2007The term “social entrepreneurship” has emerged as a recognisable field in development work with young people. This growing interest began in the 1980s with the emergence of two schools of practice that aimed to invest in young people to promote positive social change and innovative solutions that can be sustained and replicated.DocumentYouth well-being in Brazil: an index for cross-regional comparisons
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007The Brazilian Youth Well-Being Index (YWI) is a single indicator of youth well-being that can be used to compare the situation of young people across regions of Brazil, as well as track progress over time.DocumentSchool drop-out and push-out factors in Brazil: the role of early parenthood, child labor, and poverty
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007This paper uses statistical analysis to identify the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in the urban shantytowns of Fortaleza, northeast Brazil.Based on surveys of young people, the analysis identifies the following features of school attendance in the region:similar to other studies in Latin America, more boys than girls drop out of school earlythrePages