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  Wellbeing pathways report: Zambia round 1

  Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways, University of Bath, 2012

  This report sets out the 'pre-story' of the Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways research partnership's approach to wellbeing assessment and highlights findings that in Zambia, while economic status makes the greatest difference to inner wellbeing, gender/marital status comes a close second.
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  Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012 (43rd edition)

  Asian Development Bank, 2012

  This publication includes the latest available economic, financial, social and environmental indicators for the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It aims to present the latest key statistics on development issues concerning the economies of Asia and the Pacific to a wide audience. Part I of this issue is a special chapter on green urbanisation in Asia.
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  Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP)

  The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in north western Bangladesh, and aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million people.
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  Demographic pressures and the sustainability of social security in Emerging Europe and Central Asia

  2012

  How serious are the long-term effects of population ageing in the emerging economies of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia?
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  Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut
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  Sanitation for all: an engine of economic growth for urban Africa. About time to get the shit out of town?

  2011

  Improved sanitation facilitates improvements in human health, it enhances prospects for education and work, as well as personal security and dignity and has a positive impact on the environment. In this way, sanitation has a pivotal role in achieving all eight Millennium Development Goals. Human excreta can be viewed as waste or a resource.
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  Fertility and family well-being effects of an aggressive family planning policy in Peru in the 1990s

  Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2012

  In the mid-1990s, the Peruvian government initiated an aggressive family planning programme to address widespread poverty in the country, and female sterilisation was a publicly stated element of the programme. This paper tries to find out who was affected by the sterilisation policy, and what impact the policy had on fertility and household well-being.
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  Do Pre-natal and Post-natal Economic Shocks Have a Long-lasting Effect on the Height of 5-year-old Children?

  Young Lives, 2010

  While the Ethiopian national emergency and food security programmes support farmers hit by area-wide shocks such as crop failure, idiosyncratic shocks such as illness and death of household member, loss of assets and separation or divorce are not covered.
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  Maendeleo Dialogue: Democracy in Tanzania: 48 Years of Our Fight Against Poverty, Ignorance and Diseases: Have We Attained Our Goal?

  2010

  And on marking 48 years of independence in line with its Maendeleo Dialogue series, Tanzania Development Initiative Program (TADIP) in collaboration with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) organized a one day dialogue to assess achievement attained in the fight against the country’s three declared development enemies.
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  The Impact of the Midday Meal Scheme on Nutrition and Learning

  Young Lives, 2010

  Food insecurity and poor nutrition remain a problem in many developing countries and can have profound effects on children’s health and their development. The Midday Meal Scheme in India is a programme covering primary school children to improve nutrition as well as increase educational enrolment, retention and attendance.

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