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    Young lives, international study of childhood poverty - policy papers

    Young Lives, 2011
    Policy papers from the Young Lives study:
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    Child labour in commercial agriculture :the case of Malawi’s tea industry

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2005
    This document is a report of a baseline study of child labour in Malawi’s tea industry.
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    Access to land, growth and poverty reduction in Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2004
    Malawi has pursued an agricultural-led development strategy since its independence in 1964. This agricultural-led development strategy was based on the promotion of a dual agricultural system comprising estate (large-scale) production mainly for cash (export) crops and smallholder agricultural production mainly to support the food security needs of the population.
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    Self-treatment of eye diseases in Malawi

    2005
    Global blindness increased from 28 million to 45 million in the two decades between 1975 and 1995.  Current projections suggest that 76 million people will be blind by 2020 unless specific activities are undertaken to halt the trend. This problem is most pronounced in developing countries due to increasing life expectancy and population growth.
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    Cost-minimizing food budgets in Ghana

    AgEcon Search, 2010
    Attaining the daily required nutritional recommendations is a major challenge in Ghana. This paper is tries to determine the cheapest basket of food items that satisfy the recommended daily nutritional requirements of the average Ghanaian.
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    Tapping the market: id21 insights, issue 37

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001
    Can private enterprise supply water to the poor?  Over 170 million people have no access to clean water in urban areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, according to the latest WHO/UNICEF data.
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    The importance of fisheries for development: id21 insights, issue 65

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The increasing global demand for fish puts pressure on wild resources. This threatens the contribution of fisheries to poverty reduction and nutritional security in developing countries. Can these trends be reversed?
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    The effects of a very young age structure in Yemen

    Population Action International, 2011
    Yemen has the most youthful age structure in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa, with three-quarters of its population under the age of 30. It also has a very high fertility rate. Periodic terrorist attacks against foreign targets and its location as a base for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula have highlighted the geopolitical significance of this country.
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    Social transition issues in Europe and Eurasia, USAID publications

    Social Transitions, USAID, 2011
    This document is one of a series of publications sponsored by the Social Transition Team in the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia on social transition issues in the Region.You may download the documents in this series from the USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse website (http://dec.usaid.gov), using the Doc IDs for reference.If you would like more information about these and upcoming products,
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    The Global Gender Gap Report 2010

    World Economic Forum, 2010
    The Global Gender Gap Index was introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006, as a framework for capturing and measuring gender based disparities and tracking their progress. It seeks to highlight those countries that are role models in dividing resources equitably between women and men, regardless of their level of resources. In 2010, 134 countries were included in the index.

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