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  Strengthening social protection for children: West and Central Africa

  Overseas Development Institute, 2009

  This report seeks to provide an overview of existing social protection policy and programming initiatives in the West and Central Africa and to assess the extent to which these address the particular manifestations of childhood poverty and vulnerability that characterise different countries in the region.
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  The effects of parental death and chronic poverty on children’s education and health: evidence from Indonesia

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2009

  What are the impacts of of parental death and chronic poverty on children's education and health in Indonesia?
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  The impact of parental death on schooling and subjective well-being: evidence from Ethiopia using longitudinal data

  Young Lives, 2009

  This paper investigates whether the death of a parent during middle childhood affects child schooling and subjective well-being (SWB) in Ethiopia. The data comes from two rounds of the Young Lives survey, conducted in 2002 and 2006, of an initial sample of 1000 children across 20 sentinel sites in Ethiopia.
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  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 famil
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  Building resilience in rural communities: toolkit

  Learning for Sustainability, 2008

  How can a sense of community contribute to the resilience of individuals and groups? This toolkit is designed to be used by programme coordinators such as community workers, health professionals, and others working with individuals and groups in the community, including voluntary or commercial groups and community leaders.
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  A global measurement approach versus a country-specific measurement approach – do they draw the same picture of child poverty? The case of Vietnam

  Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, 2009

  For many in the developing world, a life of poverty begins at childhood. Poor children tend to grow up to be poor adults, which is why it is important to address child poverty. While household poverty measurements disaggregate poverty figures by demographic group, including by region, gender and ethnicity, they less commonly consider the child as a unit of analysis.
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  Living with our Bibi: a qualitative study of children living with grandmothers in the Nshamba area of north western Tanzania

  HelpAge International, 2008

  The Kwa Wazee Project works with grandparents and the grandchildren who live with them (generally orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS) in the Kagera district of Tanzania. The main activity of the Project is to provide a cash transfer in the form of a pension to grandparents (mostly grandmothers). Grannies get small monthly pensions for themselves and for the grandchildren they support.
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  Factors influencing decisions to use child labour: a case study of poor households in Herat

  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2009

  Child labour anywhere in the world potentially harms child development. In Afghanistan too, child labour prevails despite government regulation that mandates the minimum working age as 15 for non-hazardous work and 18 for hazardous work.
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  Cash transfers and child labour: an intriguing relationship

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008

  Conditional 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.
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  Child survival, poverty and policy options from DHS surveys in Kenya: 1993-2003

  Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2008

  Will Kenya achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on child survival by 2015? While child and infant mortality rates declined massively following Kenyan independence, progress since 1990 has slowed down – particularly on infant mortality - making it seem increasingly unlikely. This is the conclusion of new report brought out by the Poverty and Economic Policy Network (PEP).

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