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  Each and every child: understanding and working with children in the poorest and most difficult situations

  Child Rights Information Network, 2007

  Children in the poorest and most difficult situations may have distinct problems, but the root causes and factors that impact on their lives are similar. This report emphasises the importance of a holistic approach to addressing problems faced by these children.
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  A sense of direction: the trafficking of women and children from Nepal

  Childtrafficking.com, 2006

  What are the key causes for the continuation of trafficking of women and children from Nepal? This paper finds, amongst other points, that the trafficking situation is now worse than ever, with the current state of Nepal exacerbating the inherent problems (corruption, poverty, discrimination against women, etc) that have allowed trafficking to proliferate.
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  Children in female-headed households: interrogating the concept of an ‘inter-generational transmission of disadvantage’ with particular reference to the Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica

  LSE Research Online, 2007

  Are women really the ‘poorest of the poor’, and are their children really disproportionately afflicted by an ‘inter-generational transmission of disadvantage’?  A mounting body of evidence suggests that household headship is not necessarily a good predictor of the start that children have in life, nor of their trajectories into adolescence and adulthood.
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  Child labour in Venezuela: children's vulnerability to macroeconomic shocks

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2006

  What is the extent of children’s work and children’s vulnerability to work involvement in Latin America? This study provides a profile of working children in Venezuela for the 2000 reference year and examines the impact on children’s work produced by the economic crisis which hit the country during the period 2002-2003.
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  Innocenti Social Monitor 2006: understanding child poverty in South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2006

  This study examines child poverty in the 20 countries of South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (SEE/CIS). It is designed to stimulate effective policy responses and action in these countries towards the decisive improvement of children’s lives.
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  Child development, the life course, and social exclusion: are the frameworks used in the UK relevant for developing countries?

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2007

  This paper brings together three themes that have become increasingly important in both research and policy on inequality and disadvantage in the UK: child development, the life course and social exclusion.
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  Housing, health and happiness

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007

  What is the causal impact of housing improvement programmes on health and welfare? This paper investigates the impact of a large-scale effort by the Mexican government to replace dirt floors with cement floors on child health and adult happiness. The paper identifies several positive results, including: 
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  Understanding bonded child labour in Asia: an introduction to the nature of the problem and how to address it

  Child Workers in Asia, 2007

  This document presents an overview of bonded child labour in South and Southeast Asia, and provides information on legal instruments and approaches that organisations might use to fight it.
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  Situation of children without primary caregivers in Viet Nam

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2007

  This report provides an overview of a study that examined the systems of institutional and alternative care in Viet Nam for vulnerable children who do not live with their biological parents.
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  South African Child Gauge 2006

  Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2006

  The South African Child Gauge provides an annual snapshot of the situation of children in South Africa, and of progress towards realising children’s rights. The 2006 issue focuses on children and poverty.

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